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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.
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.
2. If you consider us in our selves: What is man that thou art mindful of 1him! or the son of man that thou visitest him! saith David, Psalm 8. 4. Much more wonderful is it to say, What is sinful man, that thou regardest him! or what is fallen man, that thou shouldest enter into Covenant with him! It was much that the great God should make a Covenant with man in the state of innocency; it is much more that he should renew a Covenant with him in the state of enmity: for the righteous God to covenant with righteous man, is not so wonderful, as for the holy God to make a Covenant with unholy man: To be a friend unto a friend is much less than to be a friend unto an enemy: To show favour to one who never deserved wrath, is inferior to this, viz. to show the greatest kindness to one who deserves the greatest wrath, and utter rejection. As to requite evil for good, is the greatest ingratitude; so to return good for evil, is the greatest kindness.
2. If you consider us in our selves: What is man that thou art mindful of 1him! or the sonne of man that thou visitest him! saith David, Psalme 8. 4. Much more wonderful is it to say, What is sinful man, that thou regardest him! or what is fallen man, that thou shouldest enter into Covenant with him! It was much that the great God should make a Covenant with man in the state of innocency; it is much more that he should renew a Covenant with him in the state of enmity: for the righteous God to covenant with righteous man, is not so wonderful, as for the holy God to make a Covenant with unholy man: To be a friend unto a friend is much lesse than to be a friend unto an enemy: To shew favour to one who never deserved wrath, is inferiour to this, viz. to shew the greatest kindnesse to one who deserves the greatest wrath, and utter rejection. As to requite evil for good, is the greatest ingratitude; so to return good for evil, is the greatest kindnesse.