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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
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5. You have this privilege, that you may not only come into the presence 1of your God, but you may with confidence urge him, and importune him, and wrestle with him, and still renew and reinforce your requests; you may take hold of him, and challenge, and expostulate with him, and stay him, and not let him alone, nor let him go until he blesseth you: And so large allowance of blessedness is granted unto you, that you may (in some sort) ⟨p. 85⟩command God; it is the Highest Expression that you read of, Isaiah 45. 11.
5. You have this priviledge, that you may not only come into the presence 1of your God, but you may with confidence urge him, and importune him, and wrestle with him, and still renew and reinforce your requests; you may take hold of him, and challenge, and expostulate with him, and stay him, and not let him alone, nor let him go untill he blesseth you: And so large allowance of blessednesse is granted unto you, that you may (in some sort) ⟨p. 85⟩command God; it is the Highest Expression that you read of, Isaiah 45. 11.
- 1You may with confidence wrestle with God.
6. You have this privilege, by having God to be your God, and by being his 1