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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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4. The comforts from this, that God is our God, and that we are his people: I 1shall propound these, 1. In general. 2. In particular.
4. THe comforts from this, that God is our God, and that we are his people: I 1shall propound these, 1. In general. 2. In particular.
- 1Comforts from this that God is our God.
1. In the general, it is our happiness, and blessedness, so the Scripture affirms, Psal. 33. 12. Blessed is the Nation, whose God is the Lord, and the 1people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance. Psal. 144. 15. Happy is the people whose God is the Lord. We lost our happiness, when we lost our God; and we then recover our happiness, when we recover God to be our God; there are 2three things necessary to make up a blessedness for us.
1. In the general, it is our happinesse, and blessednesse, so the Scripture affirms,