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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
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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.
3. Though you cannot find provision for your children after you, and therefore fear, yet you may find promises for your children, and therefore you should not fear; if you cannot leave them with a portion, yet if you can leave them with a promise of God, it may very well quiet and satisfy you: and this you may; Psal. 112. 2. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. Psal. 102. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established b• fore thee.
3. Though you cannot finde provision for your children after you, and therefore fear, yet you may finde promises for your children, and therefore you should not fear; if you cannot leave them with a portion, yet if you can leave them with a promise of God, it may very well quiet and satisfie you: and this you may;