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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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3. So far as the promises of God do extend, so far may, and should your dependence 1on your God extend: whatsoever he undertakes to give you in his Covenant, for all that may, and should you depend upon him for according to his Covenant: His Covenant is full of promises, and those promises are full of good for soul, for body, for both, for this life, for the next life, for grace, for glory; why! All these promises are the children's bread, and the believers portion: and as where God hath a mouth to speak to us in the way of Precepts, there we should have an ear to hear him in the way of obedience; so where God is pleased to abound in promises unto us, we are bound to enlarge our Faith in a dependence upon him for all that promised good: unbelief displeaseth and dishonoureth God in his promises, as disobedience doth dishonour and displease him in respect of his commands.
3. So far as the promises of God do extend, so far may, and should your dependance 1on your God extend: whatsoever he undertakes to give you in his Covenant, for all that may, and should you depend upon him for according to his Covenant: His Covenant is full of promises, and those promises are full of good for soule, for body, for both, for this life, for the next life, for grace, for glory; why! All these promises are the childrens bread, and the believers portion: and as where God hath a mouth to speak to us in the way of Precepts, there we should have an eare to hear him in the way of obedience; so where God is pleased to abound in promises unto us, we are bound to enlarge our Faith in a dependance upon him for all that promised good: unbelief displeaseth and dishonoureth God in his promis•s, as disobedience doth dishonour and displease him in respect of his commands.
- 1So far as the promises extend.