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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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My sins are so great, that I cannot expect that God will ever do me good: The mercies and blessings that I need, are so great, and I can lay down nothing for them. And I am unworthy of the least of mercies; nay, I deserve to be rejected and cursed! But now the graciousness of God is able effectually to remove all these discouragements.
My sinnes are so great, that I cannot expect that God will ever do me good: The mercies and blessings that I need, are so great, and I can lay down nothing for them. And I am unworthy of the least of mercies; nay, I deserve to be rejected and cursed! But now the graciousnesse of God is able effectually to remove all these discouragements.
1. Your sins are great, and therefore you are afraid that the merciful God will not pardon them: But then remember, that the merciful God is a gracious 1God: As he hath riches of mercy, so he hath riches of grace: And as he promiseth to forgive the sins of his people, so he promiseth to forgive their sins freely (the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, Eph. 1. 7.) And this remember withal, that the gracious God forgives the greatest sins, as well as the least sins of his people upon the same terms of graciousness. In Luke 7. we read of a less debtor who owed fifty pence; and ⟨p. 45⟩of a greater debtor, who owed five hundred pence, ver. 41. and the Creditor freely forgave them both, verse 42. so, &c. Your God hath not one way to forgive less sins, and another way to forgive greater sins; but though the sins be different, yet the terms or reasons of forgiveness is one and the same, viz. the free grace of God.
1. Your sinnes are great, and therefore you are afraid that the merciful God will not pardon them: But then remember, that the merciful God is a gracious