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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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6. He means you no hurt in any particular denials, or in any particular removals 1of outward blessings: He hath his reasons for them both, and those very strong and sufficient to satisfy you; you wonder sometimes that God deals so with you, as never to accomplish such a desire of yours, or presently to take away such a comfort of yours. O but your God is a good God, and he is a wise God, he knows that you know not what ye ask when you ask to be so rich, and to be so great. And he knows the danger into which you may fall by a long enjoyment of an earthly comfort, what a loss to his glory and to your own souls; and he knows how to set your hearts upon himself by breaking off your hearts from poor, vain, earthly and sensual comforts.
6. He means you no hurt in any particular denials, or in any particular removals 1of outward blessings: He hath his reasons for them both, and those very strong and sufficient to satisfie you; you wonder sometimes that God deals so with you, as never to accomplish such a desire of yours, or presently to take away such a comfort of yours. O but your God is a good God, and he is a wise God, he knows that you know not what ye ask when you ask to be so rich, and to be so great. And he knows the danger into which you may fall by a long enjoyment of an earthly comfort, what a loss to his glory and to your own souls; and he knows how to set your hearts upon himself by breaking off your hearts from poor, vain, earthly and sensual comforts.
- 1He means you no hurt in any particular denials.
7. Your wise God will find means and ways to bring in unto you all the good 1which he hath promised unto you; your when, and your how, fall within the compass of your wise God, (that is) the fittest time, and the best way, and means of your enjoyments; the golden Candlestick had seven lamps and seven pipes.