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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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5. The faithfulness of God will break down all contrarieties, and contradictions, 1and oppositions; Heaven and earth shall sooner fail and pass, than that one Word or title of Gods promise shall fail or perish; his Word of promise shall take effect, though all the Devils in hell oppose it, and though all the men on earth oppose it, and though all the powers of unbelief oppose it; this stands in the way, and that stands in the way, but yet God is faithful, and his promise shall be made good; Sarah was old, &c. But she judged him faithful who had promised, Heb. 11. God should never be trusted, if he were not faithful.
- 1It will break down all contradictions and oppositions.
8. Graciousness is another Attribute of your God; your God is a gracious 1God, and he is and will be a gracious God unto all his people. Exod. 34. 6. The Lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious. Psal. 86. 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious.
- 1God is a gracious God.
The graciousness of God is such an Attribute of God, whereby he doth favourably and freely love, and choose, and bless, and do all good unto his people without any desert, and notwithstanding any unworthiness on their part: It is the reason and account of all his actings towards them: It is all the Plea you have to all the good which God doth promise. You must distinguish 'twixt the actions and blessings of God; and 'twixt the ground or reason of them.