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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. They are reasons of our patience, but no characters of Gods change; be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises, saith the Apostle in Heb. 6. 12. God is pleased to hide himself from our prayers, and seems to neglect them, in this he tries our faith; and God is pleased many times to delay his answers, in this he exercises our patience; he will be acknowledged not only as a good God, but also as a wise God, and his delays are not his denials, but only his trials, and therefore hear himself speaking in this case, Hab. 2. 3. The Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lye; though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry, Micah 7. 7. I will wait for the God of my salvation, my God will hear me.
2. They are reasons of our patience, but no characters of Gods change; be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises, saith the Apostle in Heb. 6. 12. God is pleased to hide himself from our prayers, and seems to neglect them, in this he tries our faith; and God is pleased many times to delay his answers, in this he exercises our patience; he will be acknowledged not only as a good God, but also as a wise God, and his delays are not his denials, but only his trials, and therefore hear himself speaking in this case, Hab. 2. 3. The Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lye; though it tarry, waite for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry, Micah 7. 7. I will waite for the God of my salvation, my God will hear me.