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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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2. True holiness, though it can do but little, yet it is an universal conformity to all the Will of God. There is an answerableness 'twixt the whole Will of God, 1and the least and weakest true holiness; it approves all the holy and good Will of God, it sets up all the Will of God, it delights in all the Will of God, it strives to come up in all well-pleasing in all things to all the Will of God.
2. True holinesse, though it can do but little, yet it is an universal conformity to all the Will of God. There is an answerablenesse 'twixt the whole Will of God, 1and the least and weakest true holinesse; it approves all the holy and good Will of God, it sets up all the Will of God, it delights in all the Will of God, it strives to come up in all well-pleasing in all things to all the Will of God.
- 1It is an universal conformity to all the Will of God.It is an universal conformi•y to all the Will of God.
3. True holiness is perfecting holiness; though it be not perfect holiness, 1yet it is perfecting holiness; it prays, and hears, and looks up to the holy God to sanctify us wholly, to pour out his holy Spirit, to make all grace to abound; it sets up the holiness of God as a pattern, and strives for a fullness of holiness; to be holy as he is holy, 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16. To purify our selves as he is pure,