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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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What is that which hinders then? why, verily nothing but this holiness; O but God will give this holiness as freely as he gives his mercy, but we care not for it; O but God will give you riches of mercy with it, but we care not for it; O but it is the means to bring you to glory, but we care not for it; O but God himself is a holy God, and his people must be holy as he is holy, yet we care not for it; O but you shall never have God to be your God, nor mercy to be your mercy, nor Christ to be your Saviour, nor heaven to be your inheritance, unless you are willing to be holy but we will not be holy.
What is that which hinders then? why, verily nothing but this holinesse; O but God will give this holinesse as freely as he gives his mercy, but we care not for it; O but God will give you riches of mercy with it, but we care not for it; O but it is the means to bring you to glory, but we care not for it; O but God himself is a holy God, and his people must be holy as he is holy, yet we care not for it; O but you shall never have God to be your God, nor mercy to be your mercy, nor Christ to be your Saviour, nor heaven to be your inheritance, unlesse you are willing to be holy but we will not be holy.
Quest. It is a very considerable question, why of all the terms that God stands for, (in respect of the Covenant) this of holiness is disliked? and of all the 1good things which God doth promise in his Covenant, this of holiness only is excepted against; and of all the Attributes wherein God manifests himself to men, though they seem content and willing to imitate God in many of them, (as in love and mercy, and goodness, &c. yet they are so averse to the holiness of God, which (if it be lawful to make comparison) is one of the highest glories of God.
Quest. It is a very considerable question, why of all the termes that God stands for, (in respect of the Covenant) this of holinesse is disliked? and of all the 1