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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. The unchangeableness of the Covenant-relation: This God is our God for ever and ever. He will be our Guide even unto death, Psal. 48. 14. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. You are many times under Spiritual s••ences (God seems not to regard your prayers) and many times under Spiritual delays (God puts you off from day to day) and many times under Spiritual desertions (God hides his face from you) and Satan in such cases puts it upon you to question and disown your Covenant-relation; If God were your God, it would not be thus.
1. The unchangeablenesse of the Covenant-relation: This God is our God for ever and ever. He will be our Guide even unto death, Psal. 48. 14. For I am perswaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. You are many times under Spiritual s••ences (God seems not to regard your prayers) and many times under Spiritual delaies (God puts you off from day to day) and many times under Spiritual desertions (God hides his face from you) and Satan in such cases puts it upon you to question and disown your Covenant-relation; If God were your God, it would not be thus.
But notwithstanding all these, or any other trials of your selves, yet God still maintains his interest in you, and your relation to himself. God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew, saith the Apostle, Rom. 11. 2. I am the Lord, I change not,