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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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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?2
- 1With a low opinion of our selves.
- 2Why they should walk humbly. Because They are saved by mercy. Their enjoyments are the gifts of grace.
And there are five Reasons which the people of God have to walk humbly.
1. Because they are all saved by mercy, and brought into their high relation by the mere love of their God: In his mercy he saved them; and in your blood he set his love upon you, and said unto you, live.
1. Because they are all saved by mercy, and brought into their high relation by the meere love of their God: In his mercy he saved them; and in your blood he set his love upon you, and said unto you, live.