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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. Your Covenant-interest and relation should secure you against the fear what 1man can do; Psal. 118. 6. The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what man can do unto me.
- 1The fear of what man can do.
We are sometimes afraid of the power of man, and why are we so? I, even I am he that comforteth you; who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and the son of man, that shall be made as grass? And forgettest the Lord thy Maker, Isa. 51. 12, 13.
We are sometimes afraid of the power of man, and why are we so? I, even I am he that comforteth you; who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and the sonne of man, that shall be made as grasse? And forgettest the Lord thy Maker, Isa. 51. 12, 13.
Of the rage and fury o• man! and why are we so? Thou hast feared continually, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy; And where is the fury of th• oppressor? Isa. 51. 13. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee, and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain,