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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.
There are two sad things for any man: 1. To be left alone unto himself, so as to have no part in Christ. 2. To go alone in his approaches to God without a Christ to plead for him, to have no Christ to own him, to step in for him, to undertake for him. But this is your privilege, and this is your comfort who are the people of God, that you never deal with your God but by a Mediator; when you appear before your God, Jesus Christ appears with you, and he appears for you; when you do invocare, then he doth advocare; when you put up your petitions, then doth he make intercession; he is your Advocate with the Father, and he ever lives to make intercession for you.
There are two sad things for any man: 1. To be left alone unto himself, so as to have no part in Christ. 2. To go alone in his approaches to God without a Christ to plead for him, to have no Christ to own him, to step in for him, to undertake for him. But this is your priviledge, and this is your comfort who are the people of God, that you never deal with your God but by a Mediator; when you appear before your God, Jesus Christ appears with you, and he appears for you; when you do invocare, then he doth advocare; when you put up your petitions, then doth he make intercession; he is your Advocate with the Father, and he ever lives to make intercession for you.
3. You have this privilege, that you trade altogether at the mercy-seat, and 1at the Throne of grace: God deals with you in no other Court but that of mercy, and answers you from no other Throne but that of grace, and you deal with God at that Seat and that Throne only: When you have any sins to be pardoned, you may go to your merciful God, and to your gracious God, and your merciful God will pardon them, and your gracious God will freely pardon them: When you would have any kind of good and help, you may go to your good and kind God, and he will give it; and to your gracious God, and he will freely give it.
3. You have this priviledge, that you trade altogether at the mercy-seat, and