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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.
2. Be content to come and receive, seeing God is pleased in this Covenant to be 1giving: He is all upon the giving hand, and we should be all upon the receiving hand; The giving works is Gods work, and the receiving work is our work; he finds the gift, you must open your hand and take it. O what a blessed Covenant is this, wherein you may have all for asking and receiving! Mat. 7. 7. Ask, and it shall be given. James 1. 5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and it shall be given him. John 4. 10. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
2. Be content to come and receive, seeing God is pleased in this Covenant to be 1giving: He is all upon the giving hand, and we should be all upon the rec•iving hand; The givi•g works is Gods work, and the receiving work is our work; he findes the gift, you must open your hand and take it. O what a blessed Covenant is this, wherein you may have all for asking and receiving! Mat. 7. 7. Ask, and it shall be given. James 1. 5. If any of you lack wisdome, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and it shall be given him. John 4. 10. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- 1Be content to come and receive.