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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. Another is, seeming dislike and discouragement of seeking; Lam. 3. 7. He hath made my chain heavy. Ver. 8. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayers. Matth. 15. 23. He answered her not a word. Verse 24. I am not sent but to the lost sheep of Israel. Ver. 26. It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs.
2. Another is, seeming dislike and discouragement of seeking; Lam. 3. 7. He hath made my chaine heavy. Ver. 8. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayers. Matth. 15. 23. He answered her not a word. Verse 24. I am not sent but to the lost sheep of Israel. Ver. 26. It is not meet to take the childrens bread, and cast it to dogs.
3. A third is, a sensible contradicting or denial of our requests; as Hezekiah spake, for peace I have great bitterness: So when we pray for peace in conscience, then we feel more distress and trouble in conscience; and when we pray against temptations, then we find more powerful and violent temptations; and when we pray for deliverance from sin, we then feel more strong assaults and turbulent motions of sin.
3. A third is, a sensible contradicting or denial of our requests; as Heztkiah spake, for peace I have great bitternesse: So when we pray for peace in conscience, then we feel more distresse and trouble in conscience; and when we pray against temptations, then we finde more powerful and violent temptations; and when we pray for deliverance from sinne, we then feel more strong assaults and turbulent motions of sin.