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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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9. They are seasonable helps. The promises do contain our best good; and 1They do always dispense it in the best time. Jer. 5. 29. Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth rain, both the former and the latter in his season; He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest; Thus doth God with his promises unto his people; they shall be made good in their season; they are as the appointed weeks of the harvest; Every week is not a harvest week; when the corn is ripe, then is that time come to put in the sickle, and to reap with joy. As yet thou hast not such a mercy, such an help, such a desired and promised blessing; the reason is because it is not the season for the rain to fall; it is not yet the week of thy harvest: therefore still seek, and trust, and wait; for there is an appointed week for the harvest, and then thou shalt reap all the good which thy God hath promised, and which thy soul hath desired.
9. They are seasonable helps. The promises do contain our best good; and 1They do alwayes dispense it in the best time. Jer. 5. 29. Let us feare the Lord our God, who giveth rain, both the former and the latter in his season; He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest; Thus doth God with his promises unto his people; they shall be made good in their season; they are as the appointed weeks of the harvest; Every week is not a harvest week; when the corn is ripe, then is that time come to put in the sickle, and to reap with joy. As yet thou hast not such a mercy, such an help, such a desired and promised blessing; the reason is because it is not the season for the rain to fall; it is not yet the week of thy harvest: therefore still seek, and trust, and wait; for there is an appointed week for the harvest, and then thou shalt reap all the good which thy God hath promised, and which thy soul hath desired.
- 1They are seasonable helps.