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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. Be more careful what good you may do your children's fouls, than fearful what good God will do for your children's bodies; if your children be only your children, they are then heirs of vanity and sin, and misery; but did you take care to make them Gods children, they should be heirs of mercy and blessing.
1. Be more careful what good you may do your childrens fouls, than fearful what good God will do for your childrens bodies; if your children be only your children, they are then heires of vanity and sinne, and misery; but did you take care to make them Gods children, they should be heirs of mercy and blessing.
2. Though you die, yet your God ever lives, whose care and bounty is not restrained to one person, or to one generation, but extends unto believers, and unto their seed after them. Gen. 17. 7. And thou art the helper of the fatherless, Psal. 68. 5. In thee the fatherless findeth mercy, Hosea 14. 3.
2. Though you die, yet your God ever lives, whose care and bounty is not restrained to one person, or to one generation, but extends unto believers, and unto their seed after them. Gen. 17. 7. And thou art the helper of the fatherlesse, Psal. 68. 5. In thee the fatherlesse findeth mercy, Hosea 14. 3.