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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.
3. Is the Covenant which God makes with us a gracious Covenant? 1Then let all who are brought into Covenant remember two things.
- 1Let all in Covenant remember, To be humble all their days.Let all in Covenant remember, To be humble all their dayes.
1. To be humble all their days; you differ indeed from other men now, and you have a different relation from them, and different conditions from them, and different enjoyments from them, and different hopes from them; I, but who or what made you thus to differ? nothing in you, nothing of your own; you were in the same lump of sin and confusion, and in the same common Rode ⟨p. 128⟩of destruction with other men; it was the mere grace of God that made the difference; it was his free love, and his free mercy, and his free Spirit, and his free call, and his free giving of Christ unto you, and of faith unto you; therefore do not bless your selves but grace; nor glory in your selves but in grace; was it not the root which bred and bare the branches? glory in the root, but do not glory in your selves; glory in the grace of God which is the only root of your lives, hopes, enjoyments, all.
1. To be humble all their dayes; you differ indeed from other men now, and you have a different relation from them, and different conditions from them, and different enjoyments from them, and different hopes from them; I, but who or what made you thus to differ? nothing in you, nothing of your own; you were in the same lump of sinne and confusion, and in the same common Rode ⟨p. 128⟩of destruction with other men; it was the meer grace of God that made the difference; it was his free love, and his free mercy, and his free Spirit, and his free call, and his free giving of Christ unto you, and of faith unto you; therefore do not blesse your selves but grace; nor glory in your selves but in grace; was it not the root which bred and bare the branches? glory in the root, but do not glory in your selves; glory in the grace of God which is the only root of your lives, hopes, enjoyments, all.