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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.
1. All the good in the World is in the Fathers hands; it is the Fathers for possession, 1(he is the possessor of Heaven and Earth; Gen. 14. 22.) and for Dominion, The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof, Psal. 24. 1. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it is to wake great, and to give strength unto all, 1 Chron. 29. 12.
1. All the good in the World is in the Fathers hands; it is the Fathers for possession, 1(he is the possessor of Heaven and Earth; Gen. 14. 22.) and for Dominion, The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof, Psal. 24. 1. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it is to wake great, and to give strength unto all, 1 Chron. 29. 12.
- 1All the good in the world is in the Fathers hands
2. When God makes a Covenant with you, he doth also take in all the creatures, 1and lays a bond of special command upon them to be serviceable to your good: he doth not leave them out, but covenants with them to do you good: This is (I confess) a strange expression that God should make a Covenant with other creatures for the good of service unto his own people; and yet this you may expressly read in