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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. If your God hath the Sovereign Dominion, Then issues and events shall 1no• be as men contrive, as they will, or as they desire; for there is a greater than they which rules and reigns in the Kingdom of men; Be still, and know that I am God, Psal. 46. 10. All the powers, and all the policies, and all the rage, and malice of all the wicked on earth, are under the Dominion of God; he permits them, and he restrains them, and he confounds and destroys them; thus far shall they go, and no farther.
1. If your God hath the Sovereign Dominion, Then issues and events shall 1no• be as men contrive, as they will, or as they desire; for there is a greater than they which rules and reigns in the Kingdome of men; Be still, and know that I am God, Psal. 46. 10. All the powers, and all the policies, and all the rage, and malice of all the wicked on earth, are under the Dominion of God; he permits them, and he restrains them, and he confounds and destroys them; thus far shall they go, and no farther.
- 1The issues and events shall not be as men contrive.
2. Again, If Sovereignty and Dominion are proper to God, then you can never 1be brought in•o any straits, but God is able to help you, and to deliver you: for he is Lord of all. He is the Lord of life, and the Lord of safety, and the Lord of deliverances, and the Lord of comforts. All the creatures are at his command; if he will open the hearts of men, they shall pity you and help you in your wants; if he saith to one, Go and comfort such a Christian, go and counsel him, go and deliver him, be a friend unto him, he shall come unto thee, and be this unto thee: The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof.