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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
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2. Nay, not only visible and open profaneness discovers men to be out of the holy Covenant, but also formal and pretended, and counterfeit holiness; for the 1Covenant is really holy, and all persons in the Covenant are really holy, and the Covenant promiseth and worketh in them not a seeming, not a counterfeit, but a real and solid holiness.
2. Nay, not only visible and open profanesse discovers men to be out of the holy Covenant, but also formal and pretended, and counterfeit holinesse; for the 1Covenant is really holy, and all persons in the Covenant are really holy, and the Covenant promiseth and worketh in them not a seeming, not a counterfeit, but a real and solid holinesse.
- 1Formal and counterfeit holiness.Formal and counterfeit holinesse.
Now there are six signs of a man who hath not real holiness, but only a counterfeit holiness.1
Now there are six signs of a man who hath not real holinesse, but only a counterfeit holinesse.1
- 1Signs of counterfeit holiness. Though he may do some holy duties, yet he is not humbled for former unholy doings. Though in outward profession he seems to be holy, yet there is no renewing work of grace upon his heart.