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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.
To the Reader.
Good Reader,
HAD not the Reverend Author of this Book requested our Attestation unto all the Pieces which after his death should be printed in his Name, there would not have been any need to preface this Treatise with an Epistle. The Title Page suggesting the subject matter of the ensuing Discourse, may be sufficient to encourage the real self-studying Christian to peruse it; especially such who have been experimentally acquainted with the many practical Pieces, which have been heretofore sent unto the Press from the same hand. The Bowels of Tender Mercy sealed in the Everlasting Covenant; How full of sweetness is this one short Sentence! Every word hath its weight and worth. When aged, dying David, upon the Review of his own Condition and Relations, had mentioned the Everlasting Covenant made with himself, ordered in all things and sure: He addeth, This is all my salvation and all my desire, 2 Sam. 23. 5. ⟨image 3⟩Who knoweth all the Treasures of Grace and Comforts, which are comprised in the Covenant of Gods free and rich Mercy, made in Jesus Christ? Is there any spiritual want, which may not be supplied, or any soul-discouragement, which may not be conquered, yea, or any concernment, wherein the humble, believing Christian may not be much advantaged by the improvement of this Covenant, thus grounded and thus confirmed? As nothing is so sweet, as Gods tender mercy unto a sin-sick soul, so there can be no such confirmation unto feeble faith, as the unchangeable engagements of the Almighty, through Jesus Christ. Therefore prize with thanks, and improve with diligence, this and such-like holy helps, which Divine Providence putteth into thine hand. By so doing, thou shalt glorify the Everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ, and advance the power of Godliness, with peace and joy in thine own heart, through him, in whom we are