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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.
O Christians! Be not so dejected upon Creature with-drawments, and upon Creature failings, or upon Creature oppositions: there is enough in your God, and there is better in your God; There is fullness in him, and a living fullness: you have all, and abound by enjoying God to be your God. Though you have not the Candle, yet you have the Sun: though not the dirty puddles, yet you have streams and fountains. Reckon the enjoyment of God for your God, reckon this as something reckon on it as your best and fullest good. Assuredly it is enough to make up your happiness, and that which is enough to make you happy. It is enough to countervail all other things which can never make you happy.
O Christians! Be not so dijected upon Creature with-drawments, and upon Creature failings, or upon Creature oppositions: there is enough in your God, and there is better in your God; There is fulness in him, and a living fulnesse: you have all, and abound by enjoying God to be your God. Though you have not the Candle, yet you have the Sun: though not the dirty puddles, yet you have streams and fountains. Reckon the enjoyment of God for your God, reckon this as something reckon on it as your best and fullest good. Assuredly it is enough to make up your happinesse, and that which is enough to make you happy. It is enough to countervaile all other things which can never make you happy.
4. Give diligence to make out unto your souls this Covenant relation twixt God 1and you; as you have a real interest in God, so rest not until you do attain unto a personal evidence that God is your God, and that you are his people: until you can say as the Church in Isa. 64. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father. verse 9. Behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
4. Give diligence to make out unto your soules this Covenant relation twixt God 1