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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. For their security, to secure them against all danger and evil: and this you find (in verse 18.) I will make a Covenant for them with the beasts of the field; &c. No creature shall do them hurt, neither the beasts of the field, nor fowls of the air, nor the creeping things of the earth, nor no wicked enemies who bend the bow, and draw the sword, and prepare to the bottle; As when a Covenant is between Nation and Nation, all the people are thereby bound up from all acts of hostility and mischief; so the Lord by making a Covenant with the beasts and fowls, &c. he doth therein bind them up from being prejudicial to his people.
1. For their security, to secure them against all danger and evil: and this you finde (in verse 18.) I will make a Covenant for them with the beasts of the field; &c. No creature shall do them hurt, neither the beasts of the field, nor fowles of the aire, nor the creeping things of the earth, nor no wicked enemies who bend the bow, and draw the sword, and prepare to the bottle; As when a Covenant is between Nation and Nation, all the people are thereby bound up from all acts of hostility and mischief; so the Lord by making a Covenant with the beasts and fowls, &c. he doth therein binde them up from being prejudicial to his people.
A second is for their prosperity: and this you may find (in verse 21. 22.) I will hear the heavent, and the heavens shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the ••rn, and the wine and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel. As if all the creatures (when we are in covenant with God) were so many supplicants and Petitioners unto God, entreating of him that they might be used for a blessing unto us. The heavens do (as it were) beg of God that they may send down seasonable showers, and seasonable influences; and the earth doth (as it were) beg of God, that it may be made fruitful by those influences of heaven, &c. And God doth promise to hear every one of them for Jezreel.
A second is for their prosperity: and this you may finde (in verse 21. 22.) I will hear the heavent, and the heavens shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the rn, and the wine and the oyle, and they shall hear Jezreel. As if all the creatures (when we are in covenant with God) were so many supplicants and Petitioners unto God, entreating of him that they might be used for a blessing unto us. The heavens do (as it were) beg of God that they may send down seasonable showers, and seasonable influences; and the earth doth (as it were) beg of God, that it may be made fruitful by those influences of heaven, &c. And God doth promise to hear every one of them for Jezreel.