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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.
Beloved! never dispute it, nor fear it, if you be an holy people, God is your God in Covenant; for, 1. Holiness is in none but such as are in Covenant; 2. All in Covenant have holiness wrought in them; holiness is a Covenant gift, it drops only out of the Covenant of grace, and every one in Covenant resembles that God with whom he is in Covenant; he is holy, as his heavenly Father is holy; And let me tell you, if you have a share in the holiness of the Covenant, you shall have a share also in the happiness of the Covenant; if the holy God be your God, then the merciful God is your God, and the loving God is your God, and the blessing God is your God, and the blessed God is your God, and the everlasting God is your everlasting God: Nay, let me settle this comfort yet closer upon your hearts, though as yet you want much in the degrees and measure of holiness, yet if there be holiness in truth wrought in you, be it never so little, yet if it be true holiness, it is a true character that God is your God, and that you are his people in Covenant.
Beloved! never dispute it, nor fear it, if you be an holy people, God is your God in Covenant; for, 1. Holinesse is in none but such as are in Covenant; 2. All in Covenant have holinesse wrought in them; holinesse is a Covenant gift, it drops only out of the Covenant of grace, and every one in Covenant resembles that God with whom he is in Covenant; he is holy, as his heavenly Father is holy; And let me tell you, if you have a share in the holiness of the Covenant, you shall have a share also in the happinesse of the Covenant; if the holy God be your God, then the merciful God is your God, and the loving God is your God, and the blessing God is your God, and the blessed God is your God, and the everlasting God is your everlasting God: Nay, let me settle this comfort yet closer upon your hearts, though as yet you want much in the degrees and measure of ho•inesse, yet if there be holinesse in truth wrought in you, be it never so little, yet if it be true holinesse, it is a true character that God is your God, and that you are his people in Covenant.
Quest. That is the thing which we so much fear, how may it be known! when there is yet so much rubbish of sinful corruption dwelling in us?