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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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4. The omniscience of God is a comfort unto you, in this respect, that it is a foundation and fountain of all saving knowledge in you: God knows you, and you shall 1know him, (I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord, Hosea 2. 20. They shall all know me, Jer. 31. 34.
- 1It is comfort, as it is a fountain of all saving knowledge.
He knows you for his people, and you shall know the Lord for your God, 2 Tim. 2. 19. The Lord knoweth who are his; they shall know that I am the Lord their God, Ezek. 28. 26. so Ezek. 39. 22.
He perfectly knows you, and the time shall be that you shall perfectly know him; you shall know, even as you are known, 1 Cor. 13. 12.