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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.
blessed be God who hath sweetened all his mercies, and all his undertakings, and all his blessings, and all his givings, with freeness and graciousness.
blessed be God who hath sweetened all his mercies, and all his undertakings, and all his blessings, and all his givings, with freenesse and graciousnesse.
2. Is the Covenant which God makes with with us, a free and gracious Covenant? then stand out no longer; be aliens to God no longer, be strangers to his 1Covenant no longer; grace makes your way clear and open; it beats down all the mountains that did stand in your way.
- 1Th•n stand out no longer.
It is said of Abraham, that against hope he believed in hope: so against all the unhopefulnesse from your selves, you should believe from the hopefulness in the Covenant of grace; yea, and above hope, believe in hope; when you consider the greatness of the blessings in the Covenant, they seem to be above hope; but when you consider the graciousness in the bestowing of them, they are now under hope; Ho, all you that hear me this day, hearken unto me; The graciousness of the Covenant will prove unto you either your sweetest salvation, or else your heaviest condemnation; if it doth not prove a strong encouragement to bring you into the Covenant, it will certainly prove the heaviest and bitterest aggravation upon you for standing out against the Covenant. O beloved, yet be serious and wise, and make in to God! you may be received graciously; your sins have been exceeding great, but the Covenant holds out more exceeding mercy joined with more exceeding grace.