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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.
SECT. XIII.
There is yet one comfort more from this that God is your God, which is this, If God be your God, then all is yours: As he said Christ•• […], & omnia, Christ is mine, and all is mine; so Deus mens, & omnia […] ▪ If 1God be your God, then heaven and earth are yours; whatsoever there is in all the world that may do you good, it shall be yours: The Apostle expressly delivers as much in 1 Cor. •. •1. All things are yours. Ver. 22. Whether Paul or […], or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things •• come, […] yours. He doth not in these expressions intend that Christians have a civil, and common interest in all mens earthly possessions, but this is it which he intend, viz. That God ordains all things for the good of his people, and makes them serviceable thereunto. All those choice gifts which he bestows on Ministers, […] Apostles or others they are bestowed on them for the good of his Church; And all the things of the world, whatsoever good they may afford, they are to let out the same for the good and comfort of the people of God; and all the conditions and states of things are for their good, life shall do them good, and d••th shall be for their good, and all the vicissitude of things are for their good; the present posture of things, and the future state of things, (whether of prosperity or adversity) all occurrences whatsoever are for their good, Rom. 8. ••. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to th•• that are called according to his purpose: As if you consider ungodly and wicked men, (who are none of the people of God) there is nothing in all the world that doth them good: The Ordinances of Christ (by reason of the unbelief of their hearts) do them no good; they are the favour of death unto dth nto them, and not the savour of life […] life; the blessings of God do them no good, they prove curses unto them, […] table is a se unto them, and their rich […] thorns […] them, and their prosperity is a ruin unto them; the judgments of God do them no good, they learn not righteousness by them, they harden their hearts under them, and grow more obstinately wicked; Wherefore should ye be smitten any more? ye revolt more and more: So on the contrry, all the dispensations of God, (either of the world, or in the world) they are for good to the people of God.