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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.
When you see your selves cast at the bar of justice, you may decline the sentence by flying unto the Throne of mercy; O Lord, justice condemns me, but let mercy succour and save me; when your hearts are overwhelmed in the apprehension and consideration of your many sins, and the great guilt of them, you may then appeal to the infinitely precious and surpassing merits of Christ; wh•re sin abounded, grace did much more abound; and as sin hath reigned unto death, even so doth grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 5. 20, 21. When your conscience condemns you for sins past, then may you appeal unto your God for mercy to pardon you: God be merciful unto me a sinner, saith the Publican. Pardon my sin O Lord, for it is great, saith David.
When you see your selves cast at the barre of justice, you may decline the sentence by flying unto the Throne of mercy; O Lord, justice condemns me, but let mercy succour and save me; when your hearts are overwhelmed in the apprehension and consideration of your many sinnes, and the great guilt of them, you may then appeal to the infinitely precious and surpassing merits of Christ; wh•re sinne abounded, grace did much more abound; and as sinne hath reigned unto death, even so doth grace reigne through righteousnesse unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 5. 20, 21. When your conscience condemns you for sinnes past, then may you appeal unto your God for mercy to pardon you: God be merciful unto me a sinner, saith the Publican. Pardon my sinne O Lord, for it is great, saith David.
When the Law indites and pursues you as guilty, then may you appeal to the Gospel as the Sanctuary to receive and secure your distressed souls; when your hearts fail you because of your own unworthiness, then may you appeal to the righteousness of Christ, and so be justified in the sight of God.