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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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2. You may know whether the Lord be your God, and you be his people, 1By your mutual interests, and proprieties inclusively, and exclusively; God hath an interest in you, and you have an interest in God: he hath a propriety in you, and you have a propriety in him; in all that he hath you have an interest, and in all that you have he hath an interest; what he is, he is for you; and what you are, you are for him; he is only for you, and you are only for him: None hath that interest in you as God hath, if indeed he be your God; Nay, you have not such an interest in your selves, as God hath in you; you are not your own, you are wholly his, if indeed he be your God, and you be his people; No Sin can say, You are mine; and no Creature can say, You are mine; only God can say, You are mine; As in the Covenant of Marriage, none but the Husband can say, This woman is mine; So if God be our God in Covenant, none can say, You are mine, but God only. Levit. 20. 26. You shall be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine. Ezek. 16. 8. I entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine. Cant. 2. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. O sirs! these two words (mine and thine) make up the Covenant; Nay, if I may be rightly understood, this one word (mine) makes up the Covenant, when you sum up all, it is in this, God is mine, he is my God, he is my Lord, he is my Father, he is my friend, he is my mercy, he is my wisdom, he is my counsel, he is my rock, he is my help, he is my comfort, he is my hope, he is my salvation, he is my portion, he is my life, he is my happiness. Domine ubi sunt omnia mea, tuscis, said Paulinus; And when God looks on any person in Covenant with him, he can say, This person is mine, he is my child and my friend, and my servant; I have all his heart, and all his love, and all his hope, and all his trust, and all his delight, and all his desire, and all his fear, and all his service, &c.
2. You may know whether the Lord be your God, and you be his people, 1By your mutual interests, and proprieties inclusively, and exclusively; God hath an interest in you, and you have an interest in God: he hath a propriety in you, and you have a propriety in him; in all that he hath you have an interest, and in all that you have he hath an interest; what he is, he is for you; and what you are, you are for him; he is only for you, and you are only for him: None hath that interest in you as God hath, if indeed he be your God; Nay, you have not such an interest in your selves, as God hath in you; you are not your own, you are wholly his, if indeed he be your God, and you be his people; No Sinne can say, You are mine; and no Creature can say, You are mine; only God can say, You are mine; As in the Covenant of Marriage, none but the Husband can say, This woman is mine; So if God be our God in Covenant, none can say, You are mine, but God only.