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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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Sol. 1. The good and comfort thereby is exceeding great; for Gods omniscience 1is (as it were) the Key to open all his other Attributes; it is the spring which sets them all to work, and without which they could not work at all for your good.
- 1This is the key to open all his other Attributes.
Though the Lord be an All-sufficiency, yet unless he were omniscient, unless he did know all your wants, what good could his all-sufficiency do you? And though the Lord be of a very merciful nature, ready to pity and help, yet unless he did know your miseries, he could not help you in your miseries. It is his omniscience which doth (if I may be so bold to express it) acquaint and inform all his other glorious Attributes, and put them on, and draw them out to work for our good.
Though the Lord be an All-sufficiency, yet unlesse he were omniscient, unlesse he did know all your wants, what good could his all-sufficiency do you? And though the Lord be of a very merciful nature, ready to pity and help, yet unlesse he did know your miseries, he could not help you in your miseries. It is his omniscience which doth (if I may be so bold to expresse it) acquaint and inform all his other glorious Attributes, and put them on, and draw them out to work for our good.
2. That the omniscient God is your God, this is an unspeakable comfort unto 1you, whether you consider what he knows, or how he knows, as concerning your selves.