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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.
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.
5. Who therefore opposeth and would subvert and supplant all the Ordinances of Christ, because they press and urge holiness, and because they discover and reprove unholiness, and will not suffer him to go on quietly and desperately in paths of profaneness and ungodliness; resists the Holy Spirit in his motions.
5. Who therefore opposeth and would subvert and supplant all the Ordinances of Christ, because they press and urge holinesse, and because they discover and reprove unholinesse, and will not suffer him to go on quietly and desperately in pathes of profanesse and ungodlinesse; resists the Holy Spirit in his motions.
6. Who counts it a disgrace for him to be holy, or to be esteemed so.