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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.
Use 1 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people a sure Covenant? then behold hold what a privilege it is to have God to be our God, and for any of us to be the 1people of his Covenant. Herein they do excel all other people, namely that their Relation is higher, their condition is better, their hopes are greater, their possessions are sweeter, and their supplies are sure.
Ʋse 1 Is the Covenant which God makes with his people a sure Covenant? then behold hold what a priviledge it is to have God to be our God, and for any of us to be the 1people of his Covenant. Herein they do excell all other people, namely that their Relation is higher, their condition is better, their hopes are greater, their possessions are sweeter, and their supplies are sure.
- 1It is a singular privilege to have God for our God, and to be his people.It is a singular priviledge to have God for our God, and to be his people.
Wicked men (who are out of Covenant) have nothing sure; their lives are unsure; They shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, they shall be chased away as a vision of the night, Job 20. 8. Their pleasures and delights are unsure; They take the Timbrel and the Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ, and in a moment they go down to the grave, Job 22. 12, 13. Their wealth and riches are unsure; Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world, and increase in riches; surely thou didst set them in slippery places, how are they brought into desolation as in a moment?