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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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SECT. III.
2. THE extreme misery and infelicity of such persons who have not God 1to be their God in Covenant. The misery is so great, and so sad, that I know not well how to express it to you.
2. THE extreme misery and infelicity of such persons who have not God 1to be their God in Covenant. The misery is so great, and so sad, that I know not well how to expresse it to you.
- 1The misery of such who have not God for their God.
1. You are wholly and utterly excluded from all good and happiness. You 1have nothing to do with happiness, nor with any thing conducing to it. There is a merciful, loving, gracious, blessed God; but thou hast no portion in this God. There is a precious Christ, a mighty Redeemer, and only Saviour; but thou hast no propriety in this Christ: There are great and precious promises, there are tender compassions in God; there are admirable undertakings for all good, for soul and body: But what are all these to him who is not in Covenant, who hath not God for his God? A man reads a Lease of lands, and goods, and houses; these are something to the heirs; but what are they to an enemy, or to a stranger? A person is very great and mighty, &c. but what is this to the woman who will not marry him? Ah, how sad is this, God hath love, and not for me; hath mercy, but not for me; is happiness, but is not so to me! Well did one cry out Quid est Deus, nisi meus, what is God if he be not my God! If he be not merciful to me, and good to me, and blessedness to me.