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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.
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? Psal. 73. 12, 18, 19. Their honours and greatness are unsure; Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; They call their Lands after their own names: nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish, Psal. 49. 11, 12. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they that have seen him shall say, Where is he? Thus Zophar in Job 20. 6, 7. Their hopes are unsure; The eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape; and their hope shall be as the giving up of the Ghost, Job 11. 20. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web, Job 8. 14. Th• expectation of the wicked shall perish, Prov. 10. 28. Their possessions are unsure; Thou ⟨p. 143⟩fool, this night shall they take away thy soul, then whose shall all those things be which thou hast provided? Luke 12. 20