A59035:1916
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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Let your want or exigence be temporal, or spiritual, if it be indeed an exigence by reason of temptation from Satan, or from the insolent operations of sinful corruptions, or from the greatness of afflictions, or heaviness of misery, or distress of poverty, or any other pressure, I say, if it be a real exigence that you know not what to do, in every such case your eyes should be upon your God, you should trust on him, and stay upon his Name.
Let your want or exigence be temporal, or spiritual, if it be indeed an exigence by reason of temptation from Satan, or from the insolent op•rations of sinfull corruptions, or from the greatnesse of afflictions, or heav•nesse of misery, or distresse of poverty, or any other pressure, I say, if it be a reall exigence that you know not what to do, in every such case your eyes should be upon your God, you should trust on him, and stay upon his Name.
5. So far as your prayers may extend for your selves, so far may, and should 1your dependence on your God extend: I do not say every mans asking and faith of dependence are co-extensive: Nor do I say that every good mans asking and faith of dependence are to be paralleled: But this I say, that so far as you may pray, so far you may and ought to believe, to depend on your God, 1 Joh. 5. 14. This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. Joh. 14. 13. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son: you may pray for whatsoever God hath commanded you to pray, and you may pray for whatsoever God hath encouraged his people to pray; you may pray for whatsoever God hath promised to hear and and answer Prayer; and for whatsoever Christ may be looked upon as an Intercessor: And for all these may you depend upon your God. Nay you should do so; for as your God would have you thus to pray unto him, so he would have you to pray in faith, to ask in Faith, believing that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.