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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.
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.
2. Your little is blest, it is the cluster of grapes with the blessing of the Lord; a little wholesome food is better than a feast that is poisoned; so, &c.
2. Your little is blest, it is the cluster of grapes with the blessing of the Lord; a little wholsome food is better than a feast that is poysoned; so, &c.
3. Your little will last. As the Widows Oil ran out still, and ran out so much 1as served to sustain her all the time of Famine, so God by little and little will preserve you all your days.