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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.
1. That you are not of the world, but are chosen out of the world.
2. That you have a Covenant interest (God is your God in Covenant) and by virtue of that Covenant interest, you shall find that in your God, which is denied you in the world: As the Church spake, Isa. 63. 16. Doubtless, thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not. Thou, O Lord art our Father, our Redeemer, &c. You shall find it better in your God, then it can ever be found in the world: You cannot find love, and kindness, and favour, and good dealing, and faithfulness, and help from the world; O but you shall find at that time love, and kindness, and favour, and tender dealing, and faithfulness, and help from your God. Though men will not love you, yet your God will love you; though men will curse you, yet God will bless you; though men forsake you, yet your God will help you; Yea and you shall find the love of your God in Covenant, and his countenance, and his presence, and his goodness a thousand thousand times more sweet, and refreshing, and comforting, then all the comforts could be to you, which are denied unto you by the weak Creature.
2. That you have a Covenant interest (God is your God in Covenant) and by vertue of that Covenant interest, you shall find that in your God, which is denyed you in the world: As the Church spake, Isa. 63. 16. Doubtlesse, thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledget us not. Thou, O Lord art our Father, our Redeemer, &c. You shall finde it better in your God, then it can ever be found in the world: You cannot find love, and kindness, and favour, and good dealing, and faithfulness, and help from the world; O but you shall find at that time love, and kindness, and favour, and tender dealing, and faithfulnesse, and help from your God. Though men will not love you, yet your God will love you; though men will curse you, yet God will blesse you; though men forsake you, yet your God will help you; Yea and you shall find the love of your God in Covenant, and his countenance, and his presence, and his gooness a thousand thousand times more sweet, and refreshing, and comforting, then all the comforts could be to you, which are denied unto you by the weake Creature.