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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.
1. If you consider God himself. In himself, he is the Almighty God, the 1great possessor of heaven and earth, the eternal God, infinite in holiness, and wisdom, and power, there is no end of his greatness: He is the Lord, the Lord merciful, gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodness •nd truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, a God high above all gods.
1. If you consider God himself. In himself, he is the Almighty God, the 1great possessor of heaven and earth, the eternal God, infinite in holinesse, and wisdome, and power, there is no end of his greatnesse: He is the Lord, the Lord merci•ul, gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodnesse •nd truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sinne, a God high above all gods.
- 1God himself.
Now what wonder is it, that this God will so far abase himself as to become our God, to give himself, and to bestow himself upon us, and to own us for his people, his peculiar, his choice treasure.
Now what wonder is it, that this God will so farre abase himself as to become our God, to give himself, and to bestow himself upon us, and to own us for his people, his peculiar, his choyce treasure.