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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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8. You have this privilege, that you may expect help from your God, for all the works which you owe to God: You may go to him for grace, for strength, 1for sufficiency to work in you both to will and to do; both to believe and to suffer, Phil. 2. 13. and chap. 1. 29. Give thy strength unto thy servant, Psal. 86. 16. He will give strength unto his people, Psal. 29. 11. Gods promises are joined with his commands; this thou wouldest have me to do, O Lord give thy Spirit unto me, and cause me to do it.
8. You have this priviledge, that you may expect help from your God, for all the works which you owe to God: You may go to him for grace, for strength, 1for sufficiency to work in you both to will and to do; both to believe and to suffer, Phil. 2. 13. and chap. 1. 29. Give thy strength unto thy servant, Psal. 86. 16. He will give s•rength unto his people, Psal. 29. 11. Gods promises are joyned with his commands; this thou wouldest have me to do, O Lord give thy Spirit unto me, and cause me to do it.
- 1You may expect help from God in all your works.