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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. One is poverty of spirit; you must be poor in spirit: the poor man speaks 1supplications, saith Solomon; It was poor Lazarus that came to the rich mans d•or; and it is the poor sinner (one who is truly sensible of his spiritual wants and miseries) who will come to the door of mercy, and cry out, O Father of mercies give me mercy! O God of grace give me grace! O give me Christ, &c. If you be rich and increased, and stand in need of nothing (as Laodicea was) if you have enough of your own; if you think that you are righteous, and need not Christ, and need not mercy, &c. you will never come to God, and beg him to give you these.
1. One is poverty of spirit; you must be poor in spirit: the poor man speaks 1supplications, saith Solomon; It was poor Lazarus that came to the rich mans d•or; and it is the poor sinner (one who is truly sensible of his spiritual wants and miseries) who will come to the door of mercy, and cry out, O Father of mercies give me mercy! O God of grace give me grace! O give me Christ, &c. If you be rich and encreased, and stand in need of nothing (as Laodicea was) if you have enough of your own; if you think that you are righteous, and need not Christ, and need not mercy, &c. you will never come to God, and beg him to give you these.
- 1Poverty of spirit.
2. A second is humility of heart; a proud man scorns to beg, and scorns 1to receive; he will not be beholding to any body; it is the humble man who will acknowledge mercy, and bless for mercy, and beg for mercy, and be glad he may have mercy upon receiving terms. God gives grace to the humble, and the humble are thankfully contented to receive grace from God.