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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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3. They are full treasures. All my springs are in thee, said David, Psal. 87. 7. 1So may we say of the promises, All my helps, all my goods are in you. The promises as they depend for their constitution upon the love and goodness of God, so likewise upon the prescience and wisdom of God; God foresaw all the exigences a•d wants, and straits of his people, and drew up the promises with sufficient provisions and supplies, and helps, to answer all their conditions. There is not any good whatsoever which you do actually want, or can possibly want, but there is a full stock, and a peculiar supply for it in the promises.
3. They are full treasures. All my springs are in thee, said David, Psal. 87. 7. 1So may we say of the promises, All my helps, all my goods are in you. The promises as they depend for their constitution upon the love and goodnesse of God, so likewise upon the prescience and wisdome of God; God foresaw all the exigences a•d wants, and straits of his people, and drew up the promises with sufficient provisions and supplies, and helps, to answer all their conditions. There is not any good whatsoever which you do actually want, or can possibly want, but there is a full stock, and a peculiar supply for it in the promises.
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4. They are the best security. All the promises are the word of a God, and 1