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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.
Sol. For answer to this, remember that there are six things which do show that your holiness is true holiness, though it may be but weak and 1little.
Sol. For answer to this, remember that there are six things which do shew that your holinesse is true holinesse, though it may be but weak and 1little.
- 1How may true holiness be known. It takes off the heart from all sin.How may true holinesse be known. It takes off the heart from all sin.
1. True holiness (though never so weak) it fetches off the heart from all sin, and sets the heart against all sin, it works in compliance with all sin; it takes off the heart from the love of every sin, and raises in the heart an opposition and conflict with every sin, though as yet it cannot expel all sin, yet it will oppose all sin; though as yet it cannot conquer all sin, yet it will conflict with all sin; the least degree of light opposeth all degrees of darkness; as the least spark of fire is contrary to a Sea of water.
1. True holinesse (though never so weak) it fetches off the heart from all sin, and sets the heart against all sin, it works in compliance with all sin; it takes off the heart from the love of every sin, and raises in the heart an opposition and conflict with every sin, though as yet it cannot expel all sin, yet it will oppose all sin; though as yet it cannot conquer all sin, yet it will conflict with all sin; the least degree of light opposeth all degrees of darknesse; as the least spark of fire is contrary to a Sea of water.