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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.
He doth know all the conditions of his people with a knowledge
1. Of Approbation: The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, Psal. 1. 6. that is, he likes their way, he approves of their way; so Rev. 2. 9. I know thy works, that is, I like them exceeding well, I am pleased to see them.
2. Of Compassion: The Lord said, I have surely seen the afflictions of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their Task-masters; for 1I know their sorrows, Exod. 3. 7. If one loved us much, but did not know our wants and conditions; if one did know all our conditions, but did not love us, it were sad; but God knows and loves, &c. As a father knows the distresses and wants of his child, and pities the child in that condition; his bowels are troubled for him, and if he can, he will relieve him; so, &c.
2. Of Compassion: The Lord said, I have surely seen the afflictions of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their Task-masters; for 1I know their sorrowes, Exod. 3. 7. If one loved us much, but did not know our wants and conditions; if one did know all our conditions, but did not love us, it were sad; but God knows and loves, &c. As a father knows the distresses and wants of his childe, and pities the childe in that condition; his bowels are troubled for him, and if he can, he will relieve him; so, &c.