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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. That God is the portion of his people: Thou art my portion O Lord, Psal. 1119. 57. All the world is too low and too little to make up a portion for any one holy or godly man; he sets not out any estate as your portion but himself: If the Lord should say to a godly man I will give you all the world, and that shall be all your portion; O Lord, would he say, let others have that portion, but I beseech thee give me thy self.
- 1God is the portion of his people.
2. That God alone is portion enough; all-sufficiency is (questionless) a sufficient 1portion; as Joseph said unto his brethren, Gen. 45. 20. (by the command of Pharaoh) Regard not your stuff, for the good of all the Land of Egypt is yours; so may we say to all the people of God, Regard not, be not troubled so much for the poor stuff of earthly revenues, for the all-sufficient God is yours. The Lord is my Shepherd, therefore I shall not want, Psal. 23. 1. He that wants nothing hath enough: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great r• ward, Gen. 15. 1. H• •ho is secured from all evil, and is blessed with all blessings, certainly this man hath enough.