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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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Our Saviour saith that the Children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light: they are too cunning, two crafty for them, but yet God is too hard for them: his wisdom is beyond all their policy, Job 5. 12. He disappointeth ⟨p. 38⟩the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise, ver. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong: did not the wise God do this to Pharaoh, to Balack, to Saul, to Ahithophel, to Haman? did he not exceed them, and disappoint them?
Our Saviour saith that the Children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light: they are too cunning, two crafty for them, but yet God is too hard for them: his wisdom is beyond all their policy, Job 5. 12. He disappointeth ⟨p. 38⟩the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise, ver. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftinesse, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong: did not the wise God do this to Pharaoh, to Balack, to Saul, to Achitophel, to Haman? did he not exceed them, and disapoint them?
5. He will proportion your trials, temptations, and afflictions; for he is a wise 1God; therefore he will debate with you, and correct you in measure, neither will he lay upon you more than is right, Isaiah 27. 8. Job 34. 23. A father will not give the child as much physic as he can pour into the cup, only so much as is fit for his recovery. And no heavier burden will he lay on, than his child is able to bear: So the wise God he keeps time and measure; you shall never have an affliction, but when you need it, nor shall any temptation befall you, but God will enable you to bear it, for he is a wise God.