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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.
1. A serious meditation of God; there is nothing in him to discourage you 1from coming into Covenant with him; and there is all in him to encourage you.
- 1Of God.
1. There is nothing in him to discourage you from coming into Covenant with him: 1He doth not in this Covenant treat with you for any personal satisfaction, for the wrong which you have done him, neither doth he insist for any goodness that you should work in your own hearts, nor doth he except against you for any unworthiness in you, nor doth he distinguish you away for the greatness of your former transgressions, nor yet doth deny you hope and access, although you have a long time denied him audience unto his gracious offers, nor doth he capitulate with you in your own name, but by a Mediator, who is most pleasing to him, and prevalent with him.
1. There is nothing in him to discourage you from coming into Covenant with him: 1He doth not in this Covenant treat with you for any personal satisfaction, for the wrong which you have done him, neither doth he insist for any goodnesse that you should work in your own hearts, nor doth he except against you for any unworthinesse in you, nor doth he distinguish you away for the greatnesse of your former transgressions, nor yet doth deny you hope and accesse, although you have a long time denied him audience unto his gracious offers, nor doth he capitulate with you in your own name, but by a Mediator, who is most pleasing to him, and prevalent with him.
- 1There is nothing in him to discourage us.