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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.
3. That your fruition of God for your God, sweetens any outward portion, be 1it never so little; the little of earth with the enjoyment of God as loving, as reconciled, as accepting of us in Christ, as shining in his favour on our souls, as our God in Covenant; how satisfying, how delightful a portion is this! The small Ring with the rich Diamond, cannot that delight and please you!
- 1Out fruition of God sweatens any outward po•tion.
Object. O but I have very little of these outwards.
Sol. A little of them is enough, much is but a superfluity, and is like the water that runs besides the Mill.1
- 1Though but a little, yet It is enough. It is blest.