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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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9. The commands and ways, and communions with God, are no burdens to them; 1not grievous, because they are born of God and love him; 1 John 5. 3. But pleasing and delightful. The Law of God is written in their hearts, Jer. 31. 33. Psal. 119. 16. I will delight my self in thy Statutes. Ver. 24. Thy Testimonies are my delight. Cant. 2. 3. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet unto my taste.
9. The commands and wayes, and communions with God, are no burdans to them; 1not grievous, because they are born of God and love him; 1 John 5. 3. But pleasing and delightful. The Law of God is written in their hearts, Jer. 31. 33. Psal. 119. 16. I will delight my self in thy Statutes. Ver. 24. Thy Testimonies are my delight. Cant. 2. 3. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet unto my taste.
- 1The commands of God are not burdensome, but delightful to them.The commands of God are not burdensome, but delightful to thē.