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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.
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: 1This very Attribute is that which drops myrrhe and oyle, and honey it is one of the sweetest and strongest comforts unto you who are the people of God.
- 1The comfort of it is.
1. It sweetens all his love and mercy, and goodness unto you; God is Eternal, 1and his love to you is an Eternal love; there never shall come the time when his love or his kindness, or his goodness, or his mercy shall cease towards you; All the creatures slip away, and come to their end, and though one creature outlives another, yet every creature at last is at his journeys end: There is an end of this man and his power, and an end of that man and his love; but God never comes to an end, and his power and his love never comes to an end: O what is this that God is God, and that he is our God for ever and ever, that his love is an Eternal love, and his mercy is an Eternal mercy, and his fullness is an Eternal fullness, and his blessedness is an Eternal blessedness.