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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. When he loathes the generation of the Saints; utterly declines their fellowship, and can by no means agree with persons of holiness, even upon this account only, because they are so, but opposeth, disgraceth, reproacheth them, and is glad if he can make them odious.
2. When he loaths the generation of the Saints; utterly declines their fellowship, and can by no means agree with persons of holinesse, even upon this account only, because they are so, but opposeth, disgraceth, reproacheth them, and is glad if he can make them odious.
3. Who can reproach the beauties of holiness, and offer despite to the Spirit of grace, making holiness the peculiar object of his scoffs and mocks, and derision, these are the Saints, the holy ones, &c.
3. Who can reproach the beauties of holinesse, and offer despite to the Spirit of grace, making holinesse the peculiar object of his scoffs and mocks, and derision, these are the Saints, the holy ones, &c.
4. Who will rather venture the loss of Gods favour and mercy, and the promises of salvation, than that he will forsake his sinful lusts and unholy ways; hates to be instructed and reproved, and reformed.
4. Who will rather venture the loss of Gods favour and mercy, and the promises of salvation, than that he will forsake his sinful lus•s and unholy wayes; hates to be instructed and reproved, and reformed.