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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
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1. The adequate suitableness or answerableness of it to all and every one of the 1sinners wants, and straits, and miseries, and necessities, and desires. Let any want whatsoever befall a sinner, let his strait and necessity be what it may be, yet here is an help, and here is a remedy, and here is a suitable succour for him in this Covenant. Dost thou want a reconciled God? here he is; dost thou want a Christ? here he is; dost thou want faith, holiness, patience, meekness, ⟨p. 129⟩love, any spiritual grace? here it is; dost thou want peace and rest, and ease, and joy, and comfort for a troubled conscience? here it is; dost thou want any thing which respects thy soul? here it is; or any thing that respects thy body? here it is; take any sinner under any want at any time of his life, the Covenant contains an answerable help, and therefore it is an ordered Covenant, and a well-ordered Covenant; that Common Wealth is well-ordered, where no wholesome Law, and no wholesome Remedy is wanting for the people.
1. The adequate sutablenesse or answerablenesse of it to all and every one of the 1sinners wants, and straits, and mis•ries, and necessities, and desires. Let any want whatsoever befall a sinner, let his strait and necessity be what it may be, yet here is an help, and here is a remedy, and here is a sutable succour for him in this Covenant. Do'st thou want a reconciled God? here he is; do'st thou want a Christ? here he is; do'st thou want faith, holinesse, patience, meeknesse,