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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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6. Nay, once more God doth promise expressly, that upon our praying he will 1be our God, and that we shall be his people. And truly this puts the clearest light, and fullest life into this Direction; See a place for this, Zech. 13. 9. Th•y shall call upon my Name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God. But now remember one thing, that as prayer is a means for this work, so it must be a cordial and affectionate praying; not a formal superficial, careless form, but the desires of the heart must be in that praying, and the fervency and wrestlings of the heart: If your hearts were but set on this, to have God to be your God, and to become his people, and if you did seek this with your whole hearts: O God I cannot be satisfied until thou art pleased to become my God, &c. the Lord would certainly answer the desires of your hearts.
6. Nay, once more God doth promise expresly, that upon our praying he will 1be our God, and that we shall be his people. And truly this puts the clearest light, and fullest life into this Direction; See a place for this, Zech. 13. 9. Th•y shall call upon my Name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God. But now remember one thing, that as prayer is a means for this work, so it must be a cordial and affectionate praying; not a formal superficial, carelesse form, but the desires of the heart must be in that praying, and the fervency and wrestlings of the heart: If your hearts were but set on this, to have God to be your God, and to become his people, and if you did seek this with your whole hearts: O God I cannot be satisfied untill thou art pleased to become my God, &c. the Lord would certainly answer the desires of your hearts.
- 1God doth expressly promise upon our praying •e will be our God.