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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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I will mention some of those attributes of God, and will show you your good of and by them, and will demonstrate it, that they and all their good are engaged to all the people to whom God is a God in Covenant.
I will mention some of those attributes of God, and will shew you your good of and by them, and will demonstrate it, that they and all their good are engaged to all the people to whom God is a God in Covenant.
1. God is all-sufficiency. I am God Almighty (or all-sufficient) saith God to Abraham, 1Gen. 17. 1. (i. e.) I am an infinitely perfect•fulness to my self, and of my self; I am absolutely enough, and need or want nothing; and I will be enough, I will be a fullness to you, you shall not need any other but my self, to supply you with any good which you shall want, or to secure you from any evil which you fear. This is all-sufficiency, To be enough, and to be without any want, and to be enough to us, and to fill up all our wants; and this all-sufficiency, God doth engage himself to be unto every one with whom he is a God in Covenant, Gen. 15. 1. Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. What is that? It is as much as if he had said, I am thy all-sufficiency, and will see unto thee, that thou shalt have enough, thou shalt not want any thing. Psal. 23. 1. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Psal. 34. 9. There is no want to them that fear him. Psal. 84. 11. The Lord God is a Sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk uprightly. Now this is the comfort belonging to you, That your God is all-sufficiency, and he is your all-sufficiency; all that you have comes from him; and all that you want, shall be supplied by him; and he hath enough of his own fully to help you in any condition, and at any time, and he alone is enough unto you.