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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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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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3. Fruition of, and propriety in that good: Objective blessedness may be 1without our fruition; but our formal blessedness doth consist in our enjoyment of that blessedness in union with it, and communion of it; and all these are to be found when God is our God, and when we are his people in Covenant; That God (who is the chiefest good, and most full and infinite good) we stand possessed of, and enjoy him as so unto all eternity. This is our God for ever and ever.
3. Fruition of, and propriety in that good: Objective blessednesse may be