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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.
The Covenant holds beyond death; it doth not bring you only into a present enjoyment of God, but it is to bring you into a fall, perfect, and everlasting enjoyment of God in glory; the Covenant yields you the least part of your good, of your portion, of your happiness in this life; the greatest and fullest portion of good promised unto you by God in this Covenant, lies in the arrears, in the reserves, in the full possession of the inheritance after death; and then why should you fear to dye, and go to take a full possession? why should you fear to dye, and to enter into the joy of your Master? why should you fear to dye, and go home to receive all the desires of your hearts, and all the eternal preparations of glorious blessedness for your souls?
The Covenant holds beyond death; it doth not bring you only into a present enjoyment of God, but it is to bring you into a fall, perfect, and everlasting enjoyment of God in glory; the Covenant yields you the least part of your good, of your portion, of your happinesse in this life; the greatest and fullest portion of good promised unto you by God in this Covenant, lies in the arrears, in the reserves, in the full possession of the inheritance after death; and then why should you fear to dye, and go to take a full possession? why should you fear to dye, and to enter into the joy of your Master? why should you fear to dye, and go home to receive all the desires of your hearts, and all the eternal preparations of glorious blessednesse for your souls?
7. You who are the people of God, and have him to be your God in Covenant, 1you should walk without offending of him, and without displeasing or grieving of your good God. Mal. 1. 6. A son honoureth his Father, and a servant his Master. If then I be a Father, where is mine honour? And if I be a Master, where is my fear? friends in Covenant carefully avoid mutual offences and provocations, you should fear the Lord and his goodness, Hosea 3. 5