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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.
3. That every one who hath God for his God in Covenant, doth enjoy every 1one of these things which makes up blessedness; This so clear, that I shall not need to insist upon it.
- 1Everyone who hath God for his God, doth enjoy all these things. He hath an interest in God.
1. He hath an interest in God; yea, such an interest that includes propriety; he can say, This God is my God, and this God is my portion. Psal. 118. 28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee; Thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. Psal. 119. 57. Thou art my portion, O Lord. Psal. 73. 26. God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Bernard saith, Lord, whatsoever we give thee, unless we give our selves unto thee, it doth not satisfy thee; So we must say, Lord, whatsoever thou givest to us, it cannot satisfy us. It is somewhat to say, This house is mine, and these lands are mine, and these parents and friends are mine; but it is infinitely more to say, This God is mine, this God is my portion. The greater that God is above all others, the greater is the comfort and the blessedness, that he is mine.
1. He hath an interest in God; yea, such an interest that includes propriety; he can say, This God is my God, and this God is my portion. Psal. 118. 28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee; Thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. Psal. 119. 57. Thou art my portion, O Lord.