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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. Because you are his people: Should not a people seek unto their God? 1saith the Prophet, Isaiah 8. 19. Whether should children go but to their father? I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-borne, Jer. 31. 9. And wilt not thou cry unto me My Father? Thou art the guide of my youth, Jer. 3. 4. Upon whom should the wife depend but upon her husband? why! The Lord is married unto you, Jer. 3. 14. Thy Maker is thy husband, Isaiah 54. 5. And how is he married unto you? why! In righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies, and in failhfulness•, Hosea 2. 19, 20. Truly even this alone that you are his people, lays bond enough upon you to depend and trust upon your God; for what is it to be his people, but to choose him alone to be your God, and for to acknowledge him by trusting upon him, and loving of him, and obeying of him? if he be a God not worthy of your trust, you are a people not worthy of his love and care.
2. Because you are his people: Should not a people seek unto their God? 1saith the Prophet, Esay 8. 19. Whether should children go but to their father? I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-borne, Jer. 31. 9. And wilt not thou cry unto me My Father? Thou art the guide of my youth, Jer. 3. 4. Upon whom should the wife depend but upon her husband? why! The Lord is married unto you, Jer. 3. 14. Thy Maker is thy husband, Esay 54. 5. And how is he married unto you? why! In righteousnesse, and in judgment, and in loving kindnesse, and in mercies, and in failhfulness•,