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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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2. He alone can do you good; you need none but your God to do you good: ⟨p. 40⟩1Omnipotency is (of it self) sufficient for all your helps and supplies; as it can do all things, so it can do all things from it self: No creature is alone able or sufficient to be an help unto you without God, but God alone is able to help you without any creature; for he is omnipotent. Suppose you be in danger, God alone is able to deliver you; suppose you be under trouble of Spirit, God alone is able to comfort you; suppose you need mercy, God alone is able to pardon you; suppose you be under outward wants, God alone is able to supply you; Omnipotency needs the help of none; unto your help, it can create salvation, and command loving kindnesses, and deliverances, and any good.
- 1He alone can do you good.
3. When God will do you good, none can hinder him or you from the enjoyment 1of that good: If he will bless you, you shall be blessed; is there any power able to hinder Omnipotency? as the Apostle spake in another case, (1 Cor. 10. 22.) Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy, are we stronger than he? So say I, Will any contend with the Almighty God? Can they bind his hand? Are they stronger than the Almighty and Omnipotent God? Isa. 46. 9. I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, verse 10. My Counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. Isa. 40. 15. Behold the Nations are as a drop of a buck••, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; ver. 17. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. Beloved! you cannot put any supposition as a prejudice unto Gods Omnipotency; you cannot say, were my Adversaries not so many or mighty; were my temptations not so high and strong; were my distresses not so deep and low? were my wants not so many and great, then God could do me good, and help me; These are vain and weak suppositions in reference unto God; for although the power of men and devils, and the greatness of want and distresses may exceed out power, yet nothing is too hard for God; there are no difficulties, there are no impediments unto the Omnipotent God: If God be for us, who can be against us? saith the Apostle,