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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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1. There is a twofold fear: There is a a fear of unbelief, and this is a vexing, ⟨p. 163⟩and distressing, and disabling fear, it loosens our confidence in God, and in his 1promises: It is a naughty fear, and beware of it, and resist it, and bewail it: And there is a fear of tenderness and jealousy, in regard of the Natural deceitfulness of our own hearts, and of the supernatural weakness of our own strength, this is a 2good fear; and blessed is the man that thus feareth always: The weak child feareth, and thereupon cries out to the Parent to take him, to hold him, to support him, and by his fear of falling he is preserved from falling. So the child of God fears, and thereupon he cries out unto his God! Lord help thy servant! forsake me not, make haste to deliver me! keep me, who cannot keep my self; establish my goings, Thou hast promised to keep and preserve the feet of thy Saints; This fear is that fear which God hath promised to put into the hearts of his people that they shall not depart from him; And indeed this fear is their strength; the more of this fear, the more safe they are. Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall; Thou standest by faith, Be not high-minded but fear, work out your salvation with fear and trembling?
1. There is a twofold fear: There is a a fear of unbelief, and this is a vexing, ⟨p. 163⟩and distressing, and disabling fear, it loosens our confidence in God, and in his 1promises: It is a naughty fear, and beware of it, and resist it, and bewaile it: And there is a fear of tenderness and jealousie, in regard of the Natural deceitfulnesse of our own hearts, and of the supernatural weaknesse of our own strength, this is a 2good fear; and blessed is the man that thus feareth alwayes: The weak child feareth, and thereupon cries out to the Parent to take him, to hold him, to support him, and by his fear of falling he is preserved from falling. So the child of God fears, and thereupon he cries out unto his God! Lord help thy servant! forsake me not, make haste to deliver me! keep me, who cannot keep my self; establish my goings, Thou hast promised to keep and preserve the feet of thy Saints; This fear is that fear which God hath promised to put into the hearts of his people that they shall not depart from him; And indeed this fear is their strength; the more of this fear, the more safe they are. Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall; Thou standest by faith, Be not high-minded but fear, work out your salvation with fear and trembling?