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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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Now this common relation and interest of every person in the Trinity as to you, and the mutual relation and interest again as to them, is a matter of such infinite consequence, and full happiness, as indeed I am not able to unfold it; I will only touch at a few things in relation to one of these persons, and that is God the Father. If God be your God in Covenant, then he is your Father, and you are his 1children: the Apostle admires at this, in 1 Joh. 3. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath showed us, that we should be called the sons of God: the dignity is most high, that we should be the sons of the most High; But let us view the comforts of it. There are six comforts from this, that our God is our Father.
Now this common relation and interest of every person in the Trinity as to you, and the mutual relation and interest again as to them, is a matter of such infinite consequence, and full happinesse, as indeed I am not able to unfold it; I will only touch at a few things in relation to one of these persons, and that is God the Father. If God be your God in Covenant, then he is your Father, and you are his 1children: the Apostle admires at this, in 1 Joh. 3. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath shewed us, that we should be called the sons of God: the dignity is most high, that we should be the sons of the most High; But let us view the comforts of it. There are six comforts from this, that our God is our Father.
- 1Consider this in relation to God the Father.
1. Your Father is the Father of mercies. Blessed be God, even the Father of our