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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. Because he is your God and your Father, and this comprehends within 1it all the foundations and grounds for your faith and dependence.
1. Because he is your God and your Father, and this comprehends within 1it all the foundations and grounds for your faith and dependance.
- 1He is your God and Father.
He is an infinite all-sufficiency and goodness, and he undertakes all your helps and supplies, and stands engaged unto you for whatsoever is necessary to life and godliness, and gives unto you so many promises as so many bonds and assurances that he will do you good; and besides all this he is able to perform them, and likewise faithful in his word; yea, and besides all this, he loves you above all the people in the world, and looks on you with tender compassions […] loving kindnesses, and assures you that he will do you good for his own Names sake: What can there be more? and what can he said more to draw and persuade any to depend on a God, and to rely upon him?