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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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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.
6. Be much in prayer, that you may be kept and held fast by God unto the end, Psal. 119. 8. I will keep thy Precepts, O forsake me not utterly. Verse 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy Statutes, and I shall keep them unto the end. verse 116. Uphold me according to thy Word that I may live. verse 117. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.