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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. For your confidence in approaching unto God, and in the application of the several 1promises of God, your ways to God would be always open and fair; in all your duties, and in all the Ordinances you might say I am now going to my God and Father to help me: and that promise is my portion, and this promise is my hope; They are all of them mine, for God himself is mine: He hath given them (every one of them) unto me, (2 Pet. 1. 4.) That I might not fear, that I might have strong hope, and consolation, and encouragement. I will say no more unto you, but this, the knowledge of your Covenant-relation unto God, it is the life of your lives, and the life of your prayers, and the life of your confidences, and the life of your hope, and the life of your comforts, it is your Paradise, and your Heaven here on earth.
3. For your confidence in approaching unto God, and in the application of the several 1promises of God, your wayes to God would be alwaies open and faire; in all your duties, and in all the Ordinances you might say I am now going to my God and Father to help me: and that promise is my portion, and this promise is my hope; They are all of them mine, for God himself is mine: He hath given them (every one of them) unto me, (2 Pet. 1. 4.) That I might not fear, that I might have strong hope, and consolation, and encouragement. I will say no more unto you, but this, the knowledge of your Covenant-relation unto God, it is the life of your lives, and the life of your prayers, and the life of your confidences, and the life of your hope, and the life of your comforts, it is your Paradise, and your Heaven here on earth.
- 1For your confidence in approaching to God.