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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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4. Though your life be not Eternal, but short, yet your Eternal God hath promised to give unto you Eternal life, 1 John 2. 25. This is the promise which he hath promised us, even Eternal life: Happiness were not happiness without Eternity; Eternity of happiness is a full possession, and a present possession, and an invincible possession, and endless possession of the blessed God for ever, and ever, and ever.
5. This is comfort in all losses; I dye, but God will surely visit you, 1said Joseph; as if he had said, I cannot live to do you good, but God lives for ever; what though this comfort dyes, yet the God of all comfort lives.
- 1Comfort in all losses.
Thus have you heard the singular and manifold comforts of having God to be your God, from the excellency of all his glorious Attributes, in respect of which (because he is your God) he is engaged unto you. I thought to have added unto all this another discourse of Gods engagement in his Attributes unto his people. viz. That his Attributes were engaged unto you conjunctively; and that conjunctive engagement was, 1. Universal, not this or that Attribute of God, but this and that, every one of his Attributes. 2. Special, as his all-sufficiency and faithfulness, his goodness and graciousness, his power and wisdom, his mercifulness and unchangeableness, his omnipresence and kindness, his Sovereignty and eternity.
Thus have you heard the singular and manifold comforts of having God to be your God, from the excellency of all his glorious Attributes, in respect of which (because he is your God) he is engaged unto you. I thought to have added unto all this another discourse of Gods engagement in his Attributes unto his people. viz. That his Attributes were engaged unto you conjunctively; and that conjunctive engagement was, 1. Ʋniversal, not this or that Attribute of God, but this and that, every one of his Attributes. 2. Special, as his al-sufficiency and faithfulness, his goodness and graciousness, his power and wisdome, his mercifulness and unchangeableness, his omnipresence and kindness, his Sovereignty and eternity.