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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.
Of Admiration; who is a God like unto thee? Micah 7. 18.
Of Admirat•on; who is a God like unto thee? Micah 7. 18.
Of Satisfaction; I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness, Psal. 17. 15. Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us, John 14. 8. Thy favour is better than life, Psal. 63. 3.
Of Satisfaction; I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse, Psal. 17. 15. Lord, shew us the Father and it sufficeth us, John 14. 8. Thy favour is better than life, Psal. 63. 3.
Of Adhesion; never to part with God nor forsake him: I held him fast, I would not let him go, Cant. 3. I and you should love as with the choicest kind of love, (Federal love) so with the highest degrees of love; you should love him more than all the world, and more than all your friends, and more than all your kindred, more than father or mother, sister or brother, and more than your nearest relation, than husband or wife, and more than all your possessions, and more than your own safeties, and more than your own lives, yea, and more than your own souls; you should love your God sine omnibus, & super omnia, without all, and above all, &c. And verily there are most choice, and most strong reasons for all this in the Covenant alone, because he is your God; for because he is your God, therefore