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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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2. Look out for more than as yet you have received and do enjoy: Beloved! 1this you shall experimentally find, that the more you do study your own hearts, the more wants and weakness you shall find in them; and the more that you study the Covenant of grace, the more riches of grace, and mercy, and glory you shall find in it. As the Queen of Sheba, though she heard much of the wisdom of Solomon, yet she found more than as much more when she came and conferred with him; so besides all the good which you have heard in the Covenant, or have received from the Covenant, if you would search further into it, you should yet find those unsearchable riches of Christ, and such depths and heights of love and mercy, that you never espied before; there is much more grace, and much more love, and much more mercy, and much more peace than ever your souls as yet tasted of; you shall find greater things promised, than ever you as yet have partaken of.
2. Look out for more than as yet you have received and do enjoy: Beloved! 1this you shall experimentally finde, that the more you do study your own hearts, the more wants and weaknesse you shall finde in them; and the more that you study the Covenant of grace, the more riches of grace, and mercy, and glory you shall finde in it. As the Queen of Sheba, though she heard much of the wisdome of Solomon, yet she found more than as much more when she came and conferred with him; so besides all the good which you have heard in the Covenant, or have received from the Covenant, if you would search further into it, you should yet finde those unsearchable riches of Christ, and such depths and heighths of love and mercy, that you never espied before; there is much more grace, and much more love, and much more mercy, and much more peace than ever your souls as yet tasted of; you shall finde greater things promised, than ever you as yet have partaken of.
- 1Look out for more than as yet you have received.