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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.
1. It is the great care, and the great desire almost of every man, especially in distresses of conscience, and times of sickness and death; Be merciful unto me, O Lord, Lord be merciful unto me a sinner. O that my sins were pardoned, and how shall I get my sins pardoned! He that doth not regard the holy, doth yet prize and esteem very much the merciful God. Every sinner doth like and long for mercy.
1. It is the great care, and the great desire almost of every man, especially in distresses of conscience, and times of sickness and death; Be merciful unto me, O Lord, Lord be merciful unto me a sinner. O that my sinnes were pardoned, and how shall I get my sinnes pardoned! He that doth not regard the holy, doth yet prize and esteem very much the merciful God. Every sinner doth like and long for mercy.
2. All Controversy is at an end, when mercy pardons sin. Now enmity is slain, and wrath and curse go off (for these follow sin as unpardoned) but ⟨p. 33⟩if sin be pardoned, all punishment is pardoned, and God is reconciled, and your souls are graciously accepted, and clasped with love and favour.
2. All Controversie is at an end, when mercy pardons sinne. Now enmity is slain, and wrath and curse go off (for these follow sinne as unpardoned) but ⟨p. 33⟩if sin be pardoned, all punishment is pardoned, and God is reconciled, and your souls are graciously accepted, and clasped with love and favour.