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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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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, 1 Joh. 3. 3.
3. True holinesse is perfecting holinesse; though it be not perfect holinesse, 1yet it is perfecting holinesse; it prayes, and heares, and looks up to the holy God to sanctifie us wholly, to pour out his holy Spirit, to make all grace to abound; it sets up the holinesse of God as a pattern, and strives for a fulnesse of holinesse; to be holy as he is holy, 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16. To purifie our selves as he is pure, 1 Joh. 3. 3.
- 1It is perfecting holiness.It is perfecting holinesse.
4. True holiness makes us to prize and love holiness wheresoever we find it.; 1and the more holy, the more love; to love an holy God, an holy Christ, the holy Ghost, the holy Scriptures, the holy Sabbath, and all holy duties, all holy persons, be they rich, or be they poor; be they useful to us, or be they strangers to us; holiness loves all holiness.