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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.
1. Chiefnesse of good; Mans happiness must be the best of good. No good [below man] can be the happiness of man; and therefore mans happiness cannot be placed in the enjoyment of any created thing whatsoever, (suppose it be any gracious qualities) because there is a good better than all these, and that is God himself.
1. Chiefnesse of good; Mans happinesse must be the best of good. No good [below man] can be the happinesse of man; and therefore mans happinesse cannot be placed in the enjoyment of any created thing whatsoever, (suppose it be any gracious qualities) because there is a good better than all these, and that is God himself.
2. Fullness of good; it must be such a good as comprehends all the good ⟨p. 27⟩1which the soul of man doth or can need and desire, and is capable of; if the good be too short, and failing, that it is not suitable, or it is not extensive, if it cannot fully reach unto, and fill up the soul; it is not blessedness, for blessedness is perfect; it cannot consist with want; now such a good God only is.
2. Fulnesse of good; it must be such a good as comprehends all the good ⟨p. 27⟩1which the soul of man doth or can need and desire, and is capable of; if the good be too short, and failing, that it is not sutable, or it is not extensive, if it cannot fully reach unto, and fill up the soul; it is not blessednesse, for blessednesse is perfect; it cannot consist with want; now such a good God only is.
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