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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.
10. What can I say more? they have immunity from all evil in this life, and in the life to come; you are freed or delivered from an evil conscience, which never 1leaves accusing and condemning; from this present evil world and the corruptions thereof, from every evil work and way, from evil men, from all the evil which remains for evil men in hell.
10. What can I say more? they have immunity from all evil in this life, and in the life to come; you are freed or delivered from an evil conscience, which never 1leaves accusing and condemn•ng; from this present evil world and the corruptions thereof, from every evil work and way, from evil men, from all the evil which remains for evil men in hell.
- 1From all evil.
God in this Covenant secures you against all; why? what comforts are there in these things! and what confidence! and what encouragements! and what support unto your souls! Why do you fear so often? and why are your hearts troubled? Surely, you do not know your selves to be the people of God, or else you do not fully know the liberties and immunities of the people of God.
Sometimes you fear the heavy wrath of God; but why do you so? He is your God and your Father, and full of compassions and loving kindnesses; he will not deal with you as a revenging Judge, but as a loving and merciful Father; he is at peace with you, and reconciled unto you: Sometimes you fear the damnation and curse belonging unto sin; But why do you so? Christ hath dyed and satisfied for your sins, and he was made a curse for you, and there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ. Sometimes you fear because of the powerful motions and conflicts, and rebellions of sin in your hearts: but why do you so? seeing that sin shall not have dominion over you, and Christ in you is daily mortifying and destroying the body of sin; neither shall any Lord reign in you, but your Saviour who dyed for you.