A59035:1489
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.
4. Keep your hearts with all diligence: Look to them, watch them still, be mending of them, and minding of them; unite or join my heart unto thee said David. Let them be much in meditating of the goodness of your God; love of your God, kindness of your God. Take delight in God alone, and in his ways, as the Wife in the Husband.
4. Keep your hearts with all diligence: Look to them, watch them still, be mending of them, and minding of them; unite or joyn my heart unto thee said David. Let them be much in meditating of the goodness of your God; love of your God, kindnesse of your God. Take delight in God alone, and in his wayes, as the Wife in the Husband.
5. Be conscientiously diligent in attending upon the public Ordinances. 1 Thes. 5. 19. Quench not the Spirit, verse 20. Despise not Prophesying. Acts 20. 32. I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified: The Ordinances are your strength. They 1. Give you a sight of Gods will and ways. 2. Keep up tenderness in conscience. 3. Open more fully the love of God unto you. 4. Quicken your hearts. 5. Increase your faith. 6. Heal your corruptions. 7. Convey help from Christ. 8. Direct and establish your goings.
5. Be conscientiously diligent in attending upon the publick Ordinances. 1 Thes. 5. 19. Quench not the Spirit, verse 20. Despise not Prophecying. Acts 20. 32. I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified: The Ordinances are your strength. They 1. Give you a sight of Gods will and wayes. 2. Keep up tenderness in conscience. 3. Open more fully the love of God unto you. 4. Quicken your hearts. 5. Increase your faith. 6. Heale your corruptions. 7. Convey help from Christ. 8. Direct and establish your goings.