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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. I answer, Surely these men are more afraid then hurt, and plainly discover their ignorance concerning that heavenly frame of spirit in the people of God, and also of the nature and virtue of heavenly certainty and assurance.
Sol. I answer, Surely these men are more afraid then hurt, and plainly discover their ignorance concerning that heavenly frame of spirit in the people of God, and also of the nature and vertue of heavenly certainty and assurance.
The people of God have the laws of God written in their hearts, and their hearts are circumcised to love the Lord their God, and they know their own self weakness and insufficiency, and are taught to fear the Lord and his goodness, and to live by faith, and to be watchful in Prayer, that so they may be preserved from every evil way. Yea, and the more they are assured of the immutability of Gods love, and of their relation unto him, the more are their hearts knit in love unto him, the love of Christ constrains them, 2 Cor. 5. 14. and the more conscientiously tender are they to walk in godly fear and reverence, and in all well-pleasing before him, and to answer everlasting love with everlasting love.
The people of God have the laws of God written in their hearts, and their hearts are circumcised to love the Lord their God, and they know their own self weakness and insufficiency, and are taught to fear the Lord and his goodness, and to live by faith, and to be watchful in Prayer, that so they may be preserved from every evil way. Yea, and the more they are assured of the immutability of Gods love, and of their relation unto him, the more are their hearts knit in love unto him, the love of Christ constrains them, 2 Cor. 5. 14. and the more conscienciously tender are they to walk in godly fear and reverence, and in all well-pleasing before him, and to answer everlasting love with everlasting love.