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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.
2. Because all the great enjoyments which they have, they are the mere gifts of grace: Ye are called by grace, and justified by grace, and adopted by grace, and renewed by grace, and saved by grace.
2. Because all the great enjoyments which they have, they are the meere gifts of grace: Ye are called by grace, and justified by grace, and adopted by grace, and renewed by grace, and saved by grace.
3. Because you continually live in a dependence upon God. All your actings are in his strength, and all your communions with him are by his presence, and by his power; 1your graces, and your comforts, and particular abilities, would die in your hands, if he should but withdraw and leave you.
3. Because you continually live in a dependance upon God. All your actings are in his strength, and all your communions with him are by his presence, and by his power; 1your graces, and your comforts, and particular abilities, would die in your hands, if he should but withdraw and leave you.
- 1They live in dependency upon God.
4. Because your God is a great God, and you are but Dust and Ashes before him: 1And besides that, he knows so much of you, that you have cause to be vile in your own eyes, and to lie low before him.