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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.
7. They are living and lasting fountains; Wells still full of waters; and stars 1still full of light; Could you ••ve a thousand years, or to thousands of generations, there would be no diminution in the promises; They are as full of mercy as ever, and as sure a word of truth as ever; though your wants be more or less, higher or lower, it is all one; One promise hath as much mercy in it as will last as long as you shall live; and another promise hath as much grace, and another hath as much comfort as will serve you all your days; and the same abundance still remains for all the people of God, as long as the world lasts.
7. They are living and lasting fountains; Wells still full of waters; and stars 1still full of ligh; Could you ••ve a thousand years, or to thousands of generations, there would be no diminution in the promises; They are as full of mercy as ever, and as sure a word of truth as ever; though your wants be more or lesse, higher or lower, it is all one; One promise hath as much mercy in it as will last as long as you shall live; and another promise hath as much grace, and another hath as much comfort as will serve you all your dayes; and the same abundance still remaines for all the people of God, as long as the world lasts.
- 1They are living and lasting fountains.
8. They are the quickest dispensations. God comes not off slowly, or hardly, 1or unwillingly, or sparingly, in the performance of them. Op•n thy mouth ⟨p. 78⟩