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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.
Sol. There are six choice comforts from this unto you who have the Omnipotent God to be your God.
1. You may cast all your care upon him, whatsoever your wants be, (for soul or 1body) be they never so many, and never so great, and never so often, your God who is Omnipotent is able to supply them, Ephes. 3. 20. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think: you ask many things, and you think of many things, and you need many things, and your God is able to supply you in all these; able, yea abundantly able, abundantly able, yea, exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think; his power exceeds all your wants: There are some wants that your friends can help you in, you may go to such a friend and say unto him, Lend me so much money to pay a debt, and he is able to help you, and yet there are some wants that no friend nor man can be a help unto you in them. When the famine was very grievous in Samaria, a woman cried to the King of Israel, Help my Lord O King; and he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the wine-press? 2 Kings 6. 26, 27. As if he had said, In this thy strait, I am not able to help thee. Beloved, our wants may quickly rise above the power of man; but they can never rise above the power of God; every spiritual want exceeds the power of all creatures, but no corporal or spiritual want exceeds the power of God; you need knowledge, your God is able to give it; and you need wisdom, your God is able to give it; and you need mercy and grace, and comfort, and strength, and deliverance, and faith, patience, love, meekness, joy, peace, and friends, and bread, and house, &c. God (your God) is able to supply every want that is present, or that is possible. We read of the Israelites, that being in bondage they wanted liberty, and God gave it them; and being near the Red Sea, they wanted salvation, and God gave it; and being in the Wilderness, they wanted water, the Rock is smitten, and water is given; and they wanted bread, and God rained down Manna; and they wanted flesh, and God sent them Quails, &c.