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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.
Quest. If any of you demand how that people should live and walk who have 1God to be their God in Covenant.
- 1How a people in Covenant should walk.
Sol. I answer; Such a people should walk,
1. By faith, in a continual dependence upon their living and giving God. 2. In a singular love and delight in their good and merciful God. 3. With holiness before their Holy and Omnipresent God. 4. With uprightness before their Omniscient and All-sufficient God. 5. Without inordinate cares before their Faithful and Never-failing God. 6. Without inordinate fears before their Almighty God. 7. Without offence or grieving of their Loving God. 8. With all contentedness and well-pleasednesse of Spirit before their Wise and gracious God. 9. With all humility before their Great and Merciful God. 10. With all cheerfulness and gladness of heart before their Blessing and Blessed God. ⟨p. 93⟩11. In all constancy of obedience before their Eternal God. 12. In all the kinds of zeal for the honour of that God who hath so much honoured them as to be their God.
1. By faith, in a continual dependance upon their living and giving God. 2. In a singular love and delight in their good and merciful God. 3. With holinesse before their Holy and Omnipresent God. 4. With uprightnesse before their Omniscient and All-sufficient God. 5. Without inordinate cares before their Faithful and Never-failing God. 6. Without inordinate fears before their Almighty God. 7. Without offence or grieving of their Loving God. 8. With all contentednesse and well-pleasednesse of Spirit before their Wise and gracious God. 9. With all humility before their Great and Merciful God. 10. With all cheerfulnesse and gladnesse of heart before their Blessing and Blessed God.