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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.
Beloved! the Covenant is not sure in one pa••• and unsure in another part; this mercy promised is sure, but that mercy promised is unsure; the lesser is sure, but the greater is unsure; but all of it, and all in it are sure; pardon of lesser sins is sure, and pardon of greater sins is sure, yea, pardon of all your sins is sure! and as a pardoning mercy is sure, so healing mercy is sure, and helping mercy is sure; God will as certainly heal and renew your hearts, as he will pardon your sinful doings; and God will as certainly subdue your strong corruptions, and ⟨p. 144⟩[…] ⟨p. 145⟩[…] ⟨p. 146⟩powerful temptations, as he will do you any other good, and he will as surely give you peace in conscience, and Christ, and eternal life, and the joys of the holy Ghost, as well and as certainly as he hath given any truth of grace to you. You think this may be had, and that may be had, but you seldom come up with faith to believe that all shall be had; O Sirs, we frequently forget that the Covenant of God is a sure Covenant, and sure in all things; but let us strive to raise our faith unto that height, and to that latitude, that all the Covenant is sure; there is not one word of it which it shall fail, God will surely perform all his good promises of the Covenant; what you possess, you think is sure, yea, and all that God promiseth is sure; and therefore stir up your hearts, and look up to God with as much confidence for all which yet you want, be it never so much, and never so great, for God will surely make good all his Covenant to you; you have found the Covenant sure in many things; O but the Covenant is sure in all things; all the promises of God are Yea and Amen, &c.
Beloved! the Covenant is not sure in one pa••• and unsure in another part; this mercy promised is sure, but that mercy promised is unsure; the lesser is sure, but the greater is unsure; but all of it, and all in it are sure; pardon of lesser sinnes is sure, and pardon of greater sinnes is sure, yea, pardon of all your sinnes is sure! and as a pardoning mercy is sure, so healing mercy is sure, and helping mercy is sure; God will as certainly heal and renew your hearts, as he will pardon your sinful doings; and God will as certainly subdue your strong corruptions, and