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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. XIV.
Unto this I add a Use of instruction, which respecteth the people of God in Covenant.1
UNto this I adde a Use of instruction, which respecteth the people of God in Covenant.1
- 1Use 3. Instructions for the people of God in Covenant. Thankfully bless your God for bringing you into Covenant.Ʋse 3. Instructions for the people of God in Covenant. Thankfully blesse your God for bringing you into Covenant.
The instructions for them who are the people of God, and do enjoy him for their God in Covenant.
1. You cannot do less than thankfully to bless your God for bringing of you into Covenant with himself: This is such exceeding grace, and exceeding mercy, and exceeding love, and exceeding favour, and exceeding honour, and exceeding happiness, it cannot be but your souls must bless him for this blessing. If one should meet with a poor man, and tell him I have set my love upon you, and I will settle upon you such a Lordship worth so many thousands a year; nay, and I