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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. They are your burdens: David calls them so, Psalm 55. 27. They sit more heavy upon your spirits, than your wants do; they are like the guilt of sin in the conscience, which makes us to go heavy all the day long.
1. They are your burdens: David calls them so, Psalme 55. 27. They sit more heavy upon your spirits, than your wants do; they are like the guilt of sinne in the conscience, which makes us to go heavy all the day long.
2. They are vexations. They pierce us through with many sorrows. 1 Tim. 16. 10. Scratching, tearing, wounding thorns, as our Saviour calls them.
2. They are vexations. They pierce us through with many sorrows. 1 Tim. 16. 10. Scratching, tearing, wounding thornes, as our Saviour calls them.
- 1Your vexations.
3. They are vanities: As the King of Assyria distressed Ahaz, but helped him not at all: so our inordinate cares are are fruitful troubles, but fruitless