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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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2. You shall have the comfortablest enjoyment of them. The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it, Prov. 10. 22. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me besides the still waters, Psal. 23. 2. A little that the righteous hath, is better than the riches of many wicked, Psal. 37 16.
Your outward mercies are all of them sweet drops distilled out of the love, and out of the Covenant of your God; And are enjoyed together with the apprehension of God reconciled to you in Christ, and with peace in conscience, and joy in the holy Ghost.
3. You have the easiest enjoyment of them. They come in at a more easy rate: the 1enjoyments of wicked men do cost them dear; many times they cost them their souls, and at all times they cost them painful drudgings and vexing cares: but the people of God enjoy upon praying terms, and believing terms, and safe terms.
3. You have the easiest enjoyment of them. They come in at a more easie rate: the 1enjoyments of wicked men do cost them dear; many times they cost them their souls, and at all times they cost them painful drudgings and vexing cares: but the people of God enjoy upon praying termes, and believing termes, and safe termes.