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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.
Now there are four singular comforts unto you, which have God to be your God in Covenant and consequently have Jesus Christ to be your Prophet.1
Now there are foure singular comforts unto you, which have God to be your God in Covenant and consequently have Jesus Christ to be your Prophet.1
- 1Four comforts from hence. He hath i• in his commission to teach us.
1. He hath it in his Commission to teach you, They shall be all taught of God, Joh. 6. 45. yea it is his express Commission to preach the Gospel unto you, Luke. 4. 18. to open and reveal that Mystery which was kept secret since the world began, and to make it manifest. Rom. 16. 25, 26. even the Mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest unto his Saints, Col. 1. 26. Though others sit in darkness and see no light, yet unto you (through Christ) there ariseth light in darkness; and your eyes shall and do see the salvation of the Lord, and the glory of the Lord: the light shines in your hearts, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6. he makes known unto you, the true life, and the true way of life, the mystery of salvation.
1. He hath it in his Commission to teach you, They shall be all taught of God,