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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.
Mercifulness or mercy, doth especially denote two things in God.
1. One is tender compassion; and therefore the mercies of God are frequently 1styled his bowels; (Psal. 25. 6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies) or thy bowels of mercies. So Psal. 51. 1. According to the multitude of thy bowels of mercies; and so in the New Testament, Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, Luke 1. 78. It is remarkable, that the same word in the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, which signifies bowels, is used for mercy: which notes two things.
1. One is tender compassion; and therefore the mercies of God are frequently 1stiled his bowels; (Psal. 25. 6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies) or thy bowels of mercies. So Psal. 51. 1. According to the multitude of thy bowels of mercies; and so in the New Testament, Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, Luke 1. 78. It is remarkable, that the same word in the Hebrew, Chalde, Syriack, and Arabick, which signifies bowels, is used for mercy: which notes two things.
- 1Mercy denotes in God, Tender compassion.