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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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2. You should strive to attain unto this personal evidence of your relation: Next to your being in the Covenant, I do not know any one thing of that advantage unto you, as the knowledge (upon sure grounds) that God is your God in Covenant.
It is of singular advantage and benefit unto you.
1. For the settling of the heart. If this Covenant relation were known of you, you may say as David, Return unto thy rest, O my soul, Psal. 116. 7. Your souls cannot be settled by knowing what is happiness, but by knowing your propriety in happiness, ⟨p. 91⟩whiles your propriety is unsettled, all is unsettled within you; and if that be obtained, all is peace, and at peace; I know that this God is my God.
1. For the setling of the heart. If this Covenant relation were known of you, you may say as David, Return unto thy rest, O my soule, Psal. 116. 7. Your souls cannot be setled by knowing what is happiness, but by knowing your propriety in happinesse, ⟨p. 91⟩whiles your propriety is unsetled, all is unsetled within you; and if that be obtained, all is peace, and at peace; I know that this God is my God.