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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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3. Is it such an exceeding and complete happiness to have God to be our God in 1Covenant? Then the people of God should encourage themselves in the Lord their God, and make up themselves in their Covenant interest against all the discouragements which they meet with in the world. There are the Creature interests, and there are the Covenant interests; you are many times deprived of the former. The world loves his own, and the world hates you, and deals hardly and deceitfully with you. The world slights, and contemns, and reproaches, and withdraws, and opposes, ⟨p. 90⟩and troubles you, and persecutes you! Now in such cases you should not suffer discouragements to sink and tear your hearts: you should remember
3. Is it such an exceeding and compleat happiness to have God to be our God in 1Covenant? Then the people of God should encourage themselves in the Lord their God, and make up themselves in their Covenant interest against all the discouragements which they meet with in the world. There are the Creature interests, and there are the Covenant interests; you are many times deprived of the former. The world loves his own, and the world hates you, and deals hardly and deceitfully with you. The world slights, and contemns, and reproaches, and withdraws, and opposes, ⟨p. 90⟩and troubles you, and persecutes you! Now in such cases you should not suffer discouragements to sink and tear your hearts: you should remember
- 1Encourage your selves in the Lord your God.
1. That you are not of the world, but are chosen out of the world.