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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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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.
3. All the creatures are in the hand of the Father; and as all creatures are 1brought into the bond of the Covenant for you, so all the creatures of the world are in a subordination, and a necessary submission unto the will and pleasure of your God. If he saith to any of them Go, it goeth, or to any of them Come, and it cometh; your God hath an over-ruling Providence over them: all their power, and operations, and motions are at the sole will and command of him; they act as God will have them act, and when God will have them act, and for them for whom God will have them to act; and shall not all this be for you for your good who are the people of his Covenant, and the children of his love?