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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.
5. Because you do so little for so good a God: You make but poor returns in proportion 1to your exceeding great receipts: your best performances and acts of obedience, are so short to his mercies, that you need mercy still to pass you by.
5. Because you do so little for so good a God: You make but poor returns in proportion 1to your exceeding great receits: your best performances and acts of obedience, are so short to his mercies, that you need mercy still to passe you by.
- 1They do so little for so good a God.
You should walk with all cheerfulness, and gladness of heart, before your blessing 1and blessed God, Psal. 100. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness, Deut. 28. 47. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things. O how cheerful should your life be, who enjoy such a ⟨p. 104⟩God to be your God: This enjoyment should be like a good conscience, which is a continual feast: yet God is my God, and Christ is my Christ, and mercy and glory are mine: Yea, it should make you exceeding forward and cheerful in the services of your God: not calling them your burdens, but delights: you should rejoice in him, and rejoice to obey him, and delight to do his will, account it your meat and drink, and you should a bound in the work of the Lord.