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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. If your God be an Omnipotent God, then you who are his people are altogether 1safe and su••, both in respect of your bodies, and in respect of your souls. For your bodies: Is not he safe who hath Omnipotency to be his guard and shield? is not Omnipotency it self safety enough unto you? Deut. 33. 26. There is none like unto the God of Jeruson who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky ver. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And likewise for your souls, they shall never be lost; nay, they shall assuredly be kept and preserved to glory, John 10. 27. My sheep 2hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, ver. 28. And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my Fathers hands, ver. 29. My Father which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hands. Mark here the comfort and assurance which Christ gives, and the reason thereof. My sheep shall never perish, but they shall have eternal life. This is the comfort, and this comfort he grounds upon the power of God: (he is greater than all, and no man is able, &c.) As if he should say, many assay to hinder them and deceive of that life, but they are not able, they are in my Fathers hand, (in the keeping of his power) and he is greater (he is stronger) than all, put them all together, he is too strong for them. 1 Pet. 1. 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. There is not power enough in our selves to keep out selves, but there is power enough in God; and we are kept by the power of God (even unto salvation) until we come to the heavenly glory.
6. If your God be an Omnipotent God, then you who are his people are altogether 1safe and su••, both in respect of your bodies, and in respect of your souls. For your bodies: Is not he safe who hath Omnipotency to be his guard and shield? is not Omnipotency it self safety enough unto you?