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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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I answer, your God is a gracious God; Your God in his Covenant, hath promised all sorts of good unto you; corporal, and spiritual; small and great; And remember it for ever, that all the bonds of Gods Covenant are paid in upon the same rate: Grace was the reason of making all the promises, and Grace is the reason of the performance of every good: you shall have the greatest good upon the self-same terms as you have the least.
I answer, your God is a gracious God; Your God in his Covenant, hath promised all sorts of good unto you; corporal, and spiritual; small and great; And remember it for ever, that all the bonds of Gods Covenant are paid in upon the same rate: Grace was the reason of making all the promises, and Grace is the reason of the performance of every good: you shall have the greatest good upon the self-same termes as you have the least.
3. O but I am so unworthy of these mercies! What am I, and what is there in 1me for God to look on, to affect and to move God to do such great things for my soul!
- 1Not the greatness of our unworthiness.
Why! there is nothing in you, but an extreme need of these great good things promised by God, and an absolute unworthiness of them: O but your God is a gracious God; and as an unworthy sinner may go to a gracious God, so a gracious God will give all that he hath promised to his people, though they be unworthy. Graciousness finds the price of all mercies in it self, it is the only reason of our enjoyments.