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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.
Now this Exhortation I shall direct unto two sorts of sinners. 1. Unto such as to this day have obstinately refused to become the people of God. 2ly. Unto such who are troubled for their obstinate disobedience, and would fain become the people of God, but are afraid that God will never admit them into Covenant, that he will never be a God to them, &c.
1. Unto such who hitherto have obstinately refused to become the people of God, and to own God for their God in Covenant. What is the Almighty that we should serve 1him, spake they in Job 21. 15. Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice? said Pharaoh, Exod. 5. 2. Let us break his bands asunder, and cast away his cords from us, Psal. 2. 3. They would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his Laws, Isa. 42. 24. I will pour out my Spirit upon you, I will make known my words unto you: I called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, ye have set at naught all my counsels, Prov. 1. 23, 24, 25. Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter, Heb. 11. 24. This showed his contempt of worldly honours standing in Opposition to the enjoyment of communion with the people of God. But many refuse to become the sons of God, and to become the people of God, although they hear of the infinite happiness in being the people of God, and in the enjoyment of God to be their God; They look upon it as their great ⟨p. 105⟩loss to part with their sinful lusts, and they look upon it as their exceeding prejudice and disgrace to be counted the people of God, and they look upon it as their heavy burden to be brought into the Covenant, and yielding up themselves unto God alone.