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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.
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.
1. That Gods relation unto you, as your God, is a relation of the dearest love, and kindness, and grace, and mercy, and peace, and bowels of compassion.
1. That Gods relation unto you, as your God, is a relation of the dearest love, and kindnesse, and grace, and mercy, and peace, and bowels of compassion.
2. That Gods Covenanting with you to be a God unto you, it is the highest engagement which God can lay upon himself, and the fullest assurance which he can give unto you, that he will be your God. His Covenant engagement unto you hath all his glory and Attributes pawned in it, and the highest ratification, even his Oath, and the blood of Christ to seal it.
2. That Gods Covenanting with you to be a God unto you, it is the highest engagement which God can lay upon himself, and the fullest assurance which he can give unto you, that he will be your God. His Covenant engagement unto you hath all his glory and Attributes pawned in it, and the highest ratification, even his Oath, and the blood of Christ to seale it.