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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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3. The unchangeable God ever lives. David speaking of the earth, and of 1the heavens, delivers himself thus in Psalm 102. 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; all of them shall wax old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. Ver. 27. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end: He endures for ever, his mercy endures for ever, his loving kindness endures for ever, his Word abides and endures for ever; look on other things, they are changeable, and we see them to be changed; men love, and hate; they prosper, and they wither; they do us good, and then they die, and can never do us good more: But the unchangeable God still lives, he is still the same, and ever lives to love you for ever, and to bless you for ever, and to show mercy to you for ever. Though you have not a father to go unto (for he is dead) and though you have not a friend to go unto (for every one of them is dead) yet you have a God to go unto who lives for ever, and lives unchangeable; yea, though your friend doth live, and now grows strange to you, and will not know you, yet your God will know you, and own you, and regard, and help you, for he is an unchangeable God.
3. The unchangeable God ever lives. David speaking of the earth, and of 1the heavens, delivers himself thus in Psalme 102. 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; all of them shall wax old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. Ver. 27. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end: He endures for ever, his mercy endures for ever, his loving kindness endures for ever, his Word abides and endures for ever; look on other things, they are changeable, and we see them to be changed; men love, and hate; they prosper, and they wither; they do us good, and then they die, and can never do us good more: But the unchangeable God still lives, he is still the same, and ever lives to love you for ever, and to blesse you for ever, and to shew mercy to you for ever. Though you have not a father to go unto (for he is dead) and though you have not a friend to go unto (for every one of them is dead) yet you have a God to go unto who lives for ever, and lives unchangeable; yea, though your friend doth live, and now grows strange to you, and will not know you, yet your God will know you, and own you, and regard, and help you, for he is an unchangeable God.