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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.
Now this our immunity is a singular comfort unto us. It is a great matter to be delivered from the wrath of man; what is it then to be freed from the wrath of God! You may observe in others, how dreadful the expectation of future wrath is unto sinners, and how unsupportable the burden of it is unto their consciences; how it turns all their delights into gall and wormwood; how it shakes the foundations of their souls, and fills them with restless amazements, and horrors, and despairs; And you read of that hell of his wrath on them in hell, which makes the damned to gnash their teeth, to cry out and roar, to curse, and blaspheme, which they cannot endure, and which they cannot escape.
Now this our immunity is a singular comfort unto us. It is a great matter to be delivered from the wrath of man; what is it then to be freed from the wrath of God! You may observe in others, how dreadful the expectation of future wrath is unto sinners, and how unsupportable the burden of it is unto their consciences; how it turns all their delights into gall and wormwood; how it shakes the foundations of their souls, and fills them with restlesse amazements, and horrours, and despaires; And you read of that hell of his wrath on them in hell, which makes the damned to gnash their teeth, to cry out and roare, to curse, and blaspheme, which they cannot endure, and which they cannot escape.
But you who are the people of his Covenant, as you shall never fall under the power of that future wrath of God, so you shall never taste one drop of Gods judicial revenging wrath any one moment of your present life; whatsoever your troubles, and crosses, and sadnesses may be, yet there is no judicial wrath in them; Christ hath fully drunk off the cup for you, and satisfied the justice of God, who by his blood is reconciled and well-pleased with you.