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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.
1. All fears and doubts are silenced in all your approaches unto God; The Father 1unto whom you pray, he loves you: the Son by whom you pray, he loves you: the Spirit who helps you to pray, he also loves you: If you have the love of every one of them, there is no just cause of any distrustful fears.
- 1All fears and doubts are silenced in all your approaches unto God. You cannot but speed very well in prayer.
2. Nay, how can it be, but that you must speed very well? Love gives the kindest, and fullest, and easiest, and sweetest answers and helps! what, will not the loving God and Father, the loving Christ and Saviour, the loving Spirit and Comforter, what will they not do for you?
3. Whatsoever God is in his greatness, the better it is for all you, who are thus beloved of him. I do confess that the greater God is, (if he loves us not) the 1more dreadful is our apprehension of him: but the greater that he is, (if he loves us) this is the more comfortable unto us: The greatness of his power, who loves us; The greatness of his All-sufficiency, who loves us; The greatness of his Mercifulness, Wisdom, Knowledge, Faithfulness, &c. who loves us; can you have a greater encouragement then this; that God who knows all things, who hath all things, who can do all things, who will perform all things, this God loves me! unquestionably therefore I shall be the better for that power, &c.