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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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6. Have you any other to depend upon? Every creature (naturally) is in a 1state of dependency; it is weak and wanting, and an insufficiency to it self, and therefore it must lean upon some stronger prop than it self. And do not you find it so with your selves? find you no wants at all? can you be a sufficiency unto your selves under those wants? will any or can any but God supply the wants of the people of God? Most of your wants are above all Creature helps.
6. Have you any other to depend upon? Every creature (naturally) is in a 1state of dependency; it is weak and wanting, and an insufficiency to it self, and therefore it must lean upon some stronger prop than it self. And do not you finde it so with your selves? finde you no wants at all? can you be a sufficiency unto your selves under those wants? will any or can any but God supply the wants of the people of God? Most of your wants are above all Creature helps.
- 1You have no other to depend upon.
2. You who are the people of God, should walk in an exceeding love of your 1good and loving God. Matth. 22. 37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 1 John 4. 19. We love him because he first loved us. Deut. 11. 1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.