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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There are three things for which we should bless God. 1. For his restraining grace. 2. For his converting grace. 3. For his confirming grace, that he will, and doth keep you steadfast to himself in Covenant.
There are three things for which we should blesse God. 1. For his restraining grace. 2. For his converting grace. 3. For his confirming grace, that he will, and doth keep you stedfast to himself in Covenant.
O beloved! we could never keep our selves, nor establish our selves; were it not for the goodness, and the power, and the love, and the faithfulness of our God, we should break with God, and turn aside from him, and leave all: truly ⟨p. 164⟩it is almost a wonder that the people of God do hold out in keeping Covenant with God, considering
1. The daily and frequent discouragements which they meet with in the world, the continual scorns, and threats, and persecutions, and affronts to their persons and godliness.
1. The daily and frequent discouragements which they meet with in the world, the continual scorns, and threats, and persecutions, and affronts to their persons and godlinesse.