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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.
6. Who cannot sit quietly under a soul-searching Ministry which strikes at superstition and formality, and hypocrisy; but would raise his heart to higher 1principles, and better affections, and a more spiritual way of serving God, than a mere opus operatum.
6. Who cannot sit quietly under a soul-searching Ministry which strikes at superstition and formality, and hypocrisie; but would raise his heart to higher 1principles, and better affections, and a more spiritual way of serving God, than a meer opus operatum.
- 1He cannot bear a soul-searching Ministry,
O now this persons soul is stung; and have I not all this while known how to serve God? and must I now learn a new way to heaven?
Well, think of these things both sorts of you, for neither the one nor the other are interested in this Covenant of grace, which is an holy Covenant, but you are yet an unholy people.