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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
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5. God himself doth propound this very way of prayer and seeking of him, as a means to find him to be our God, and to make us to be his people. When he 1sets out himself in relation to this Covenant-work in Ezekiel 36. from verse 25. to 36: he adds in verse 37. thus saith the Lord God, I will yet be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them, &c. as if he should say, All this I promise to be unto you, and to do for you; and do you enquire of me, or pray unto me, and all this you shall receive from me, &c. So here in Isa. 55. having declared the Covenant which he would make with us from verse 3. to verse 6. and in particular, that Christ should have Nations run unto him that did not know him; he prescribes this duty of praying and seeking of him, verse 6. S•ek •e the Lord whiles he may be found; and call ye upon him whil•s he is near; as if he should say, Thus graciously do I represent my self what I will be; therefore seek me, and call upon me, and I will be thus unto you.
5. God himself doth propound this very way of prayer and seeking of him, as a means to find him to be our God, and to make us to be his people. When he 1sets out himself in relation to this Covenant-work in Ezekiel 36. from verse 25. to 36: he addes in verse 37. thus saith the Lord God, I will yet be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them, &c. as if he should say, All this I promise to be unto you, and to do for you; and do you enquire of me, or pray unto me, and all this you shall receive from me, &c. So here in Isa. 55. having declared the Covenant which he would make with us from verse 3. to verse 6. and in particular, that Christ should have Nations runne unto him that did not know him; he prescribes this duty of praying and seeking of him, verse 6. Sek e the Lord whiles he may be found; and call ye upon him whils he is near; as if he should say, Thus graciously do I represent my self what I will be; therefore seek me, and call upon me, and I will be thus unto you.