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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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O when a soul comes to be afflicted for sins, and to acknowledge it self unworthy of mercies, this soul is in a right posture for mercies. God made a Covenant with us in Adam, and stated life upon us in case of obedience; but we presently brake Covenant with him, and proved unfaithful, and dealt treacherously with him, fell off from him for a thing of naught, and all the days of our lives have we been sinning, and dishonouring and provoking of him, so that had we our desert, so far might God be from accepting of us into a new Covenant, that he might justly condemn us for our transgressing of the old Covenant; if we did seriously and sadly review these things, till our hearts were humbled within us, and that we saw our life to be the free gift of God again, and that we stood at his mercy only to spare us and pity us, and accept of us; and in this posture come to God, and cry out, O save me for thy mercies sake: Lord, I have undone my self, I have left thee, I have lost thee, I have dealt unfaithfully with thee, I have sinned exceedingly against thee, I have gone far from thee; yet I come back to thee; I hear thou art a merciful God, though I am a sinful wretch; I hear that thou art a gracious God, though I am an unworthy sinner; I hear that thou hast made a new Covenant to relieve and succour them who have violated the first Covenant; I hear that this Covenant is full of grace and mercy, and pity, and help, and happiness; I come to thee to make peace with thee, to be reconciled unto me, to show me favour; I perish if thou reject me; I live if thou accept ⟨p. 114⟩of me; I can bring nothing, I can challenge nothing; only thou sayest, That thou wilt have mercy on whom thou wilt have mercy; and may not a poor miserable unworthy sinner be made capable of thy mercy? may he not be received unto mercy? why else didst thou give Christ? why else didst thou set up a Covenant of grace? O Lord receive me graciously, and love me freely, and for thine own sake become my God, and make me to be one of thy people: Verily, this is a moving way, and this is a taking way, for God doth look upon the humble and contrite spirit, and he will hear the desire of the humble, He will prepare their hearts, and cause his ear to hear, Ezek. 16. 61. Thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, &c. ver. 62. And I will establish my Covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
O when a soul comes to be afflicted for sinnes, and to acknowledge it self unworthy of mercies, this soul is in a right posture for mercies. God made a Covenant with us in Adam, and stated life upon us in case of obedience; but we presently brake Covenant with him, and proved unfaithful, and dealt treacherously with him, fell off from him for a thing of naught, and all the dayes of our lives have we been sinning, and dishonouring and provoking of him, so that had we our desert, so farre might God be from accepting of us into a new Covenant, that he might justly condemn us for our transgressing of the old Covenant; if we did seriously and sadly review these things, till our hearts were humbled within us, and that we saw our life to be the free gift of God again, and that we stood at his mercy only to spare us and pity us, and accept of us; and in this posture come to God, and cry out, O save me for thy mercies sake: Lord, I have undone my self, I have left thee, I have lost thee, I have dealt unfaithfully with thee, I have sinned exceedingly against thee, I have gone farre from thee; yet I come back to thee; I hear thou art a merciful God, though I am a sinful wretch; I hear that thou art a gracious God, though I am an unworthy sinner; I hear that thou hast made a new Covenant to relieve and succour them who have violated the first Covenant; I hear that this Covenant is full of grace and mercy, and pity, and help, and happinesse; I come to thee to make peace with thee, to be reconciled unto me, to shew me favour; I perish if thou reject me; I live if thou accept