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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.
Quest. And what is to be done, that we may be holy?1
- 1What is to be done that we may be holy. Beg of God to make you holy.
Sol. I will tell you what is to be done.
1. Beseech the holy God to make you holy; holiness is attributed to God. 1. Essentially; he is holiness it self. 2. Infinitely; there are no bounds of his holiness. And 3. Causally; and therefore Christ prayed for his Disciples to his Father, John 17. 17. Sanctify them, &c. And the Apostle for the Thessalon• ans, 1 Thes. 5. 23. The God of peace sanctify you. And God hath promised to give his holy Spirit to them that ask him, Luke 11. 13. And he hath sanctified those that were very unholy. 1 Cor. 6. 11, 12. Such were some of you, but you are washed, but you are sanctified. And besides all this, this prayer is well-pleasing to God, Lord, make me holy, I would not grieve and dishonour thee any more, I would not be vile.
1. Beseech the holy God to make you holy; holinesse is attributed to God. 1. Essentially; he is holinesse it self. 2. Infinitely; there are no bounds of his holinesse. And 3. Causally; and therefore Christ prayed for his Disciples to his Father,