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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. Consider the persons now taken into Covenant, what they were is themselves. 1The Prophet tells you what they were, in Ezekiel 16. 3. Thy birth and thy Nativity was of the Lord of Canaan; thy Father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. Ver. 4. Thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou wasted in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. Ver. 5. No eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion on thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born. Ver. 6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Ver. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, be hold thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. Yea, and the Apostle tells us what persons they were, whom yet God took into Covenant. Titus 3. 3. We our selves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Ver. 4. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared. Ver. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. In these places we see that there can be nothing found in us, either as to our natures, or as to our works, which might move God to take us into Covenant; but enough in both for him to reject us; and yet notwithstanding both, he is pleased to enter into Covenant with us, and save us; This must needs be grace and mercy.
1. Consider the persons now taken into Covenant, what they were is themselves. 1The Prophet tells you what they were, in Ezekiel 16. 3. Thy birth and thy Nativity was of the Lord of Canaan; thy Father was an Am•rite, and thy mother an Hittite. Ver. 4. Thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou wasted in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swadled at all. Ver. 5. No eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion on thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born. Ver. 6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Ver. 8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, be hold thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakednesse; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into Covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. Yea, and the Apostle tells us what persons they were, whom yet God took into Covenant.