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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.
Eternity is an interminable being and duration before any time, and beyond all time; it is a fixed duration without beginning or ending: If you should imagine as many thousand myriads of years before time was as there are sands on the Seashore, and of ten thousand thousand times more myriads after time shall not be, you could not in the one or the other make any discovery of the being or duration of God; the Eternity of God is beyond all possible conception of measure or time. God ever was, ever is, and ever shall be.
Eternity is an interminable being and dutation before any time, and beyond all time; it is a fixed duration without beginning or ending: If you should imagine as many thousand myriads of years before time was as there are sands on the Seashore, and of ten thousand thousand times more myriads after time shall not be, you could not in the one or the other make any discovery of the being or duration of God; the Eternity of God is beyond all possible conception of measure or time. God ever was, ever is, and ever shall be.
Though the manifestations of himself unto the creatures are in time, yet his ⟨p. 53⟩essence or being never did nor shall be bound up by time; look backward or forward, God from Eternity to Eternity is a most self-sufficient, infinite, perfect, blessed being, the first cause of our being, and without any cause of his own being; an eternal infinite fullness and possession to himself, and of himself: what God is, he was from Eternity; and what God is, he will be so to Eternity: 1This very Attribute is that which drops myrrh and oil, and honey it is one of the sweetest and strongest comforts unto you who are the people of God.
Though the manifestations of himself unto the creatures are in time, yet his ⟨p. 53⟩essence or being never did nor shall be bound up by time; look backward or forward, God from Eternity to Eternity is a most self-sufficient, infinite, perfect, blessed being, the first cause of our being, and without any cause of his own being; an eternal infinite fulnesse and possession to himself, and of himself: what God is, he was from Eternity; and what God is, he will be so to Eternity: