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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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4. Impart themselves, and all that they have, or can do unto him; their hearts 1and lives, and gifts, and services, that God may have all; and draw out your All, All your hearts, all your graces, all your parts and lives, and estates, Josh. 24. 17. ⟨p. 24⟩The Lord is our God. Ver. 24. The Lord our God will we serve. Rom. 14. 7. None of us liveth to himself. Verse 8. Whether we live, we live unto the Lord, &c. Now is it thus with us? have we indeed chosen the Lord to be our God? and are we engaged unto him, and love him, and own him, and are become his, and none but his, and have we made over our selves, and all that we have unto him, and count nothing, no, not our lives too dear for him? The Lord hath passed by thousands, and hath set his heart on you; and have you passed by all others, and set your hearts only on him? But are you sure that you have not chosen some other Object with him, or before him? only the Lord God is chosen by you, and set up by you. No sinful object, and no earthly object is set up: And are you so become his, as that you will be his for ever? you are bound to him, you cleave unto him; nothing shall part you and your God; no outward preferments, afflictions, and crosses: do you count it your only happiness to enjoy him, and your only unhappiness to be deprived of him? do you say, None but God, none but God? as the Martyr said, None but Christ. But are you so his, that he is the greatest desire, and the greatest delight, and the greatly beloved of your souls? Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none on earth that I desire besides thee, Psal. 73. 25. Nay, but may the Lord make use of you as his? If he should say, I must use your wisdom, or your power, or your authority, or your zeal, or your estate, or your lives, for the service of my glory: Can you now answer, O Lord, I am thine, I am thy servant, all that I have is thine, and all that I can do is thine? thou shalt command my heart, my parts, my estate, my life, my All, &c.
4. Impart themselves, and all that they have, or can do unto him; their hearts