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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. With a sense of our own insufficiencies: we are not sufficient of our selves to 1think any thing as of our selves, but our sufficiency is of God, 2 Cor. 3. 5. O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man to direct his steps, Jer. 10. 23.
- 1With a sense of our own insufficiency.
3. With a full acknowledgement of the grace of God, as the reason and cause of 1our all: By the grace of God I am what I am: And I laboured more abundantly then they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me, said Paul, 1 Cor. 15. 10.
- 1With a full acknowledgement of the grace of God.
4. With a low opinion of our selves, as 1 Cor. 4. 6. That not one of you be puffed up 1for one against another, verse 7. For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive. Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?