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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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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.
4. A fourth is, when Gods dealings of providence seem quite opposite to his undertakings in his promise. Judges 6. 12. The Lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour, said the Angel to Gideon. Ver. 13. And Gideon said unto him, If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his miracles which our fore-fathers told us of? Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of the Midianites, neither hast thou delivered thy people at all, Exod. 5. 23. And so David, to whom God promised a Kingdom, but instead thereof, he was banished the Kingdom, and his life was sought for, and pursued by Saul; whereupon he concludes instantly that all men are liars, Psal. 116. 11. In all these cases (and many more) we are very apt to be discouraged, and to question (at least) the sureness of Gods Covenant, and to cry out with David, Psal. 77. 7