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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.
Before I pass from this, I shall make some Use of it.
Before I passe from this, I shall make some Use of it.
Use 1. Is this the New Covenant, That God is to us a God, and that we are to him a people? That he promiseth that he will be our God, and we promise that we will be his people? and is this the vital and chief part of the Covenant, that 1God is, and will be our God? Oh then, what matter of admiration is this? What wonders of love and kindness are manifested in this! Judas (not Iscariot) wondered at the peculiar manifestations of Christ unto the Disciples, John 14. 22. What is the cause that thou wilt show thy self to us, and not unto the world! And David wondered at Gods Promise to establish his house and throne for ever before him, 2 Sam. 7. 16. Then went King David and sate before the Lord, and he said, Who am I O Lord God! and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto! verse 18. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight Oh Lord God, but •hou hast spoken of thy servants house for a great while to •ome; and is this the manner of man Oh Lord God! verse 19. And Moses wondered at the great work of Providence in the deliverance of Israel, and drowning of Pharaoh, Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods, who is like thee! Glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders, Exod. 15. 11. All these things, and many more there are, which afford wonder and admiration to us; But this one thing, that God is our God, and that he promiseth in the Covenant to be our God, and that we shall be his people, is of all other the most amazing truth, ⟨p. 19⟩