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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. The tenderness of your Covenant-relation. The tenderness of Gods love 1unto you, and the tenderness of Gods care over you; Do not suffer Satan to raise jealousies, and do not you nourish any jealousies about these; if you do so, you dishonour your God by them, and make your souls to serve him with bitterness; your God loves you with as tender love as ever Father loved his dearest child, Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? my bowels are troubled for him, Jer. 31. 20. ⟨p. 92⟩His love is set upon you, Deut. 7. 7. And he doth rest in his love, Zeph. 3. 17. He loves you with an everlasting love, and therefore draws you with loving kindness, Jer. 31. 3. And your God hath a most tender care over you, as a man hath over his jewels, (which are his chiefest treasures) I will make up my jewels, Mal. 3. 17. and as a man hath over the apple of his eye; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye, Deut. 32. 10. And as an Eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreads abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, verse 11. So the Lord, &c.
2. The tendernesse of your Covenant-relation. The tendernesse of Gods love 1unto you, and the tendernesse of Gods care over you; Do not suffer Satan to raise jealousies, and do not you nourish any jealousies about these; if you do so, you dishonour your God by them, and make your soules to serve him with bitterness; your God loves you with as tender love as ever Father loved his dearest child, Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant childe? my bowels are troubled for him,