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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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3. Though the man seems to be holy, yet he will not be more holy; he hath got into his circle from whence you shall not stir him; he hath put on his form of holiness 1which his wise fore-fathers left him, and who so is short of that, he counts him naught; and who so exceeds that, he counts him precise and vain-glorious; that man was never holy, who strives not to be more holy.
3. Though the man seems to be holy, yet he will not be more holy; he hath got into his circle from whence you shall not stirre him; he hath put on his forme of holiness 1which his wise fore-fathers left him, and who so is short of that, he counts him naught; and who so exceeds that, he counts him precise and vain-glorious; that man was never holy, who strives not to be more holy.
- 1Though he seems to be holy, yet he will not be more holy.
4. Though the man seems to be holy, yet he doth not cordially delight in holy 1persons; his companions if they be not profane, yet they are vain and empty, fruitless and helpless to his soul: If a person be godly and holy indeed, then to except against this, and find fault with that in him, shows his ungodliness is unpleasing to him, and he is as weary of him, as the Israelites were of Manna.
4. Though the man seems to be holy, yet he doth not cordially delight in holy 1persons; his companions if they be not profane, yet they are vain and empty, fruitlesse and helplesse to his soul: If a person be godly and holy indeed, then to except against this, and finde fault with that in him, shews his ungodlinesse is unpleasing to him, and he is as weary of him, as the Israelites were of Manna.