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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.
But • one of these will be, if you keep up a Covenant with sin: you will never be willing to be his, if you resolve to keep your sins; and you cannot love the Lord, if you love your sins; neither can you serve him, if you will obey sin as your Lord; There is an absolute incompatibility for this, both on Gods part, and on your part, and on the Covenants part.
But • one of these will be, if you keep up a Covenant with sinne: you will never be willing to be his, if you resolve to keep your sinnes; and you cannot love the Lord, if you love your sinnes; neither can you serve him, if you will obey sinne as your Lord; There is an absolute incompatibility for this, both on Gods part, and on your part, and on the Covenants part.
1. On Gods part; for he cannot nor will not make any agreement with unrighteousness, nor hold communion with any who will hold communion with ⟨p. 113⟩darkness; he is of purer eyes than to behold sin; much more than to agree with sin; it is contrary to his nature, it were dishonourable for him so to do, to admit a competition with that which he so much threatens; and which his soul doth hate and abhor.
1. On Gods part; for he cannot nor will not make any agreement with unrighteousnesse, nor hold communion with any who will hold communion with ⟨p. 113⟩darknesse; he is of purer eyes than to behold sinne; much more than to agree with sinne; it is contrary to his nature, it were dishonourable for him so to do, to admit a competition with that which he so much threatens; and which his soul doth hate and abhorre.