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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.
For Prayers, Psal. 13. 3. Consider and hear me, O Lord my God, Psal. 109. 26. Help me, O Lord my God.
For confidence that their prayers shall have success, and be answered, Mich. 7. 7. I will look unto the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
There are but two things on which you can possibly fix, and fasten any scruple, or doubt in respect of God: one is, whether he be able to help you: the other is, whether he be willing so to do: and as to both these your hearts may easily be satisfied. For
Because he is a God, therefore he is able to do you any good. And because he is your God, therefore he is certainly willing, and most •eady to do you any good. There are four things which (if you did seriously consider of them) would be of special help unto you, against your fears, and would streng then your hearts in all your approaches unto God.