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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. He loves you with an unutterable love, the purest and highest love, with a fatherly 1love, with a faithful love, with a tender love, with an everlasting love. The Schoolmen distinguish of amor gratuitus, and of amor debitus; our love is but of debt which we owe to God; Gods love is a gracious gift unto us; we love him, but can add nothing to him; he loves us, and his love makes us up for ever; he begins in love o•ly from his love; and we love when he sheds abroad his love into our hearts; he loves, and receives nothing from us; we love, and receive all from him.
1. He loves you with an unutterable love, the purest and highest love, with a fatherly 1love, with a faithful love, with a tender love, with an everlasting love. The Schoolmen distinguish of amor gratuitus, and of amor debitus; our love is but of debt which we owe to God; Gods love is a gracious gift unto us; we love him, but can adde nothing to him; he loves us, and his love makes us up for ever; he begins in love o•ly from his love; and we love when he sheds abroad his love into our hearts; he loves, and receives nothing from us; we love, and receive all from him.
- 1He loves you.
2. He blesseth you, provides for you, bestows all upon you, enricheth you, 1gives Christ, and Mercy, and Grace, and Peace, and Glory. Who would not ⟨p. 95⟩love a God who is Goodness it self? and Love it self? and Blessedness it self? who would not but love a God who is his God, who delivers from hell, who quickens from death, who pardons all sins, who cleanseth from all iniquity, who makes us near unto himself, who puts his Name upon us, who speaks peace to our consciences, who blesseth us with all blessings, who guides and keeps, and feeds us all our days, who will give eternal life at last!