A59035:1808
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.
1. You cannot give it to your own hearts, it is not in your power to make your hearts to believe.
2. None can give it but God, no created power is sufficient for this work.
3. God is able to make your hearts to believe: to break all the chains of unbelief: To set out Christ as most desirable, and to work faith, that so you shall come to Christ; He is able to enlighten your minds, and to convince your judgements, and to overcome your wills, and to persuade your hearts.
3. God is able to make your hearts to believe: to break all the chains of unbelief: To set out Christ as most desirable, and to work faith, that so you shall come to Christ; He is able to enlighten your minds, and to convince your judgements, and to overcome your wills, and to perswade your hearts.
4. He hath promised to give this faith: He hath promised that the dead shall hear the voice of his Son,