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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.
1. The great and utmost distance twixt you and God.
2. The baseness of servitude, in which every one lives, over whom sin hath dominion; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage, 2 Pet. 2. 19. You were but very slaves to your lusts, and to the devil, whiles sin did rule over you.
2. The basen•sse of servitude, in which every one lives, over whom sinne hath dominion; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage, 2 Pet. 2. 19. You were but very slaves to your lusts, and to the devil, whiles sinne did rule over you.
3. The height of enmity. As you were the basest of slaves, so you were the worst of enemies; living not only as aliens without God, but as desperate enemies, opposing and fighting against God.