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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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Sol. Why? dost thou find these things promised by God unto thee? God wants not power to do them, and he is faithful, and will do them; the faithful God will perform every good thing which he hath promised; though thy unbelief many times saith, He will not; and thy fears dispute how he can; though thy reason fail thee, and though thy sense fail thee, and though thy heart fail thee; yet thy God will never fail thee, thy faithful God will not fail thee. God is faithful, and he will not suffer thee to be tempted above what thou art able, &c. 1 Cor. 10. 15.
Sol. Why? dost thou find these things promised by God unto thee? God wants not power to do them, and he is faithful, and will do them; the faithful God will performe every good thing which he hath promised; though thy unbelief many times saith, He will not; and thy fears dispute how he can; though thy reason fail thee, and though thy sense faile thee, and though thy heart faile thee; yet thy God will never faile thee, thy faithful God will not fail thee. God is faithful, and he will not suffer thee to be tempted above what thou art able, &c. 1 Cor. 10. 15.
4. The faithfulness of God is a support unto you under all his silence, and under 1all his delayings of the good which he hath promised, and you do so earnestly crave: Your prayers are not in vain, your waitings are not in vain: Perhaps you have waited at the gate of heaven (many a day, yea, and many a year) for assurance of mercy, for power over such a sin, for victory over evil thoughts and temptations, and afflictions, and yet you are not heard, and still you are put off, and hereupon your heart begins to faint (God will not do me this good, and he will not remember his promise) O but do you remember that your God is a faithful God; and a faithful God cannot lye, a faithful God will keep his Covenant, will remember his Covenant, will perform his Covenant; he may be silent unto your prayers; he may delay you long; but he is faithful; he hath his time, and he will surely take his time to answer and succour you.