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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. But O Lord, how shall we be able to compass this, and to attain all this?
Quest. But O Lord, how shall we be able to compasse this, and to attaine all this?
Sol. Nay, that is not the question saith God, but are you willing thus to take me for your God? if you be cordially willing thus to take me, I will be your God, and I am your God; and according to my Covenant, I engage my self unto you, to give you holiness, to change your hearts, and to give you mercy, to pardon your sins, and to give you grace and power to mortify your lusts, and to give you strength to obey my Will, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them all.
Sol. Nay, that is not the question saith God, but are you willing thus to take me for your God? if you be cordially willing thus to take me, I will be your God, and I am your God; and according to my Covenant, I engage my self unto you, to give you holinesse, to change your hearts, and to give you mercy, to pardon your sinnes, and to give you grace and power to mortifie your lusts, and to give you strength to obey my Will, to walk in my Statutes, and to do them all.
O Sirs, this willingness, such a willingness as this to accept of God to be our God, this is accepted, and this is enough to enter you into this gracious Covenant with God; and truly, this willingness to accept of God to be your God, comes from God willingness, and Gods goodness, and Gods power, and Gods grace to make you to be his people; None have this willingness wrought in them, but those only whom God will take into Covenant with him.
O Sirs, this willingnesse, such a willingnesse as this to accept of God to be our God, this is accepted, and this is enough to enter you into this gracious Covenant with God; and truly, this willingnesse to accept of God to be your God, comes from God willingnesse, and Gods goodnesse, and Gods power, and Gods grace to make you to be his people; None have this willingnesse wrought in them, but those only whom God will take into Covenant with him.