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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 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.
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 faile you because of your own unworthinesse, then may you appeal to the righteousnesse of Christ, and so be justified in the sight of God.
When you feel your selves (as to your own sense) utterly destitute, left, lost, forsaken, then may you appeal to the promises of God, and there find your selves still owned and loved, and plentifully and graciously assured.
When you feel your selves (as to your own sense) utterly destitute, left, lost, forsaken, then may you appeal to the ptomises of God, and there finde your selves still owned and loved, and plentifully and graciously assured.
2. You have this privilege, that all your communions with God are by a 1Mediator, and Advocate, and Intercessor: Or you pray not in your own names, but in the Name of your Christ and Mediator; and you plead not in your own names, but in the Name of your Christ; and you speed not in your own name, but in the Name of your Christ; nay, you believe and hope not in your own names, but in the Name of Christ.
2. You have this priviledge, that all your communions with God are by a