A59035:1304
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. In the apprehension of your wants, and of the suitable good which God 1hath promised unto his people, pray, and never cease; seek, and ask, and knock; if you find your names written in the Covenant, and your supplies written in the promises, now pray without ceasing, pray without fainting; you are sure to speed, and therefore be sure to pray: your labour is not in vain in the Lord, said the Apostle, 1 Cor. 15. •8. So say I, your prayers unto the Lord shall not be in vain; consider that place in Isa. 45. 19. I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain, I the Lord speak in righteousness; as if he should say, I never did put you upon fruitless service; you never lost your labour when you sought me; whensoever you sought me, you did find me; I have been still as good as my word, I the Lord speak righteousness; I do not deceive any, but what I promise to be unto them that seek unto me to do for them, that I will be, and that I will certainly do for them.
1. In the apprehension of your wants, and of the sutable good which God 1hath promised unto his people, pray, and never cease; seek, and ask, and knock; if you finde your names written in the Covenant, and your supplies written in the promises, now pray without ceasing, pray without fainting; you are sure to speed, and therefore be sure to pray: your labour is not in vain in the Lord, said the Apostle, 1 Cor. 15. •8. So say I, your prayers unto the Lord shall not be in vain; consider that place in Isa. 45. 19. I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain, I the Lord speak in righteousnesse; as if he should say, I never did put you upon fruitlesse service; you never lost your labour when you sought me; whensoever you sought me, you did finde me; I have been still as good as my word, I the Lord speak righteousnesse; I do not deceive any, but what I promise to be unto them that seek unto me to do for them, that I will be, and that I will certainly do for them.