A59035:1890
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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1. You must consider in what posture a Christian must be who may judge of the presence 1or absence of the Spirit of Christ in him. 1. He must be out of melancholy. 2. Out of violent temptation. 3. Out of Desertion: He must be himself, see himself that he is able and fit to judge Spiritual works, and to compare things together, and to weigh all that may be said in the balance of the Sanctuary. If thou be in this free posture, and upon diligent search, and serious consideration canst find not any one effect of communion with Christ, the case is very heavy: But I believe the contrary touching thee, O weak Christian! when those above mentioned impediments are off, so that thou art able to use the light of grace, and of a renewed conscience, much of Christ and from Christ will be found in thee, a love of thy Christ, a delight in thy Christ, a heart ready and willing to hear, and to obey thy Christ.2
1. You must consider in what posture a Christian must be who may judge of the presence 1or absence of the Spirit of Christ in him. 1. He must be out of melancholy. 2. Out of violent temptation. 3. Out of Desertion: He must be himself, see himself that he is able and fit to judge Spiritual works, and to compare things together, and to weigh all that may be said in the ballance of the Sanctuary. If thou be in this free posture, and upon diligent search, and serious consideration canst finde not any one effect of communion with Christ, the case is very heavy: But I believe the contrary touching thee, O weak Christian! when those above mentioned impediments are off, so that thou art able to use the light of grace, and of a renewed conscience, much of Christ and from Christ will be found in thee, a love of thy Christ, a delight in thy Christ, a heart ready and willing to hear, and to obey thy Christ.2
- 1In what posture a Christian must be, who may judge of the presence or absence of the Spirit.
- 2Distinguish of vital and vivifical acts.