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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. This love is at cost and charges for you, and it makes all easy and joyful: there is not a person of the Trinity but is glad (if I may so express it) with all his heart 1to do you good: it is no burden to the Father to promise, nor to the Son to ⟨p. 72⟩purchase, nor to the holy Ghost to apply the riches of Grace and Glory unto you.
4. This love is at cost and charges for you, and it makes all easie and joyful: there is not a person of the Trinity but is glad (if I may so expresse it) with all his heart 1to do you good: it is no burden to the Father to promise, nor to the Son to ⟨p. 72⟩purchase, nor to the holy Ghost to apply the riches of Grace and Glory unto you.
- 1This love is at cost and charges for you.
This love is that which makes them restless until they have done you good; (the Father waits to be gracious, and to show mercy! How do I long until it be accomplished, said Christ of his sufferings for us, &c.) and unweariable in the doing of us good.
This love is that which makes them restlesse untill they have done you good; (the Father waits to be gracious, and to shew mercy! How do I long untill it be accomplished, said Christ of his sufferings for us, &c.) and unweariable in the doing of us good.