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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. A sixth Attribute of God, is Omnipotency; your God is Elshadai, God Almighty; 1above seventy times is he styled so in Scripture, Psal. 62. 11. God hath spoken once, twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto God, 1 Chron. 29. 11. Thine O Lord is the greatness and the power, ver. 12. In thine hand is power and might, Job 37. 23. Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out, he is excellent in power, Psal. 132. 2. The mighty God of Jacob, Psal. 147. 5. Great is the Lord, and of great power, Psal. 45. 3. Most mighty, Matth. 19. 26. with God all things are possible. This Omnipotency is a divine Attribute whereby God is (of himself alone) infinitely able to do whatsoever he will do, and whatsoever he undertakes to do, and whatsoever is possible to be done. We have 2a true saying, that Po•entia sequitur essentiam, there is always a commensuration twixt the essence of a thing and the power of it. A limited essence hath but a limited power: and therefore every creature hath but a limited power, because it hath a limited essence; The fire and water can do some things (as such Elements) but more they cannot do; The Sun and Moon and the rest of the Stars can also do many things, in their Sphere, and without that they can do nothing; So men and Angels they are able to do much, but still their power is contracted and bounded according to their essence; but God is of an infinite essence, there 3are no bounds unto his being, and therefore he is of infinite power.