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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.
Use 1 If this Covenant be a giving Covenant, then the poor and needy may traffic at it. If it were a buying and selling Covenant (in proper sense) then 1poor sinners must despair; but it is a giving Covenant, and therefore poor sinners have hope; May not the poor (who keep no house of their own) yet go to the rich mans door where all is given?
Ʋse 1 If this Covenant be a giving Covenant, then the poor and needy may traffique at it. If it were a buying and selling Covenant (in proper sense) then 1poor sinners must despaire; but it is a giving Covenant, and therefore poor sinners have hope; May not the poor (who keep no house of their own) yet go to the rich mans door where all is given?
- 1Then the poor and needy may traffic at it.Then the poor and needy may traffique at it.
When we survey our hearts and conditions, we find a world of wants, and when we survey the Covenant, we find a Heaven of supplies.
When we survey our hearts and conditions, we finde a world of wants, and when we survey the Covenant, we finde a Heaven of supplies.
Objection. But then we fear, and dispute, and reason, But how shall we get this mercy, and gain that blessing, and enjoy that help? We have nothing, and we can bring nothing; the Well indeed is deep, but we have nothing to draw.