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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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1. That God is, and that he only is our blessedness, this will presently appear 1by these three Arguments.
1. That God is, and that he only is our blessednesse, this will presently appear 1by these three Arguments.
- 1God is, and he only is our blessedness, Proved. Blessedness is perfection. God is perfection.God is, and he only is our blessednesse, Proved. Blessednesse is perfection. God is perfection.
1. Blessedness is perfection, and it is the chiefest perfection; it raiseth our condition, and so raiseth it, that it cannot be raised any higher or further; and therefore the Apostle describing the blessedness of the Saints in heaven, saith, that thus the spirits of just men are made perfect, Heb. 12. 24. But God is perfection, and he is the chiefest perfection; not only as to himself, but also as to us; that he is perfection to himself, is evident by his own all-sufficiency, and by his own infiniteness (all-sufficiency is perfection, and infiniteness is perfection, and independency on any, is a perfection of, and no it, self) and that he is a perfection, and the chiefest of perfection unto us is as evident; for,
1. Blessednesse is perfection, and it is the chiefest perfection; it raiseth our condition, and so raiseth it, that it cannot be raised any higher or further; and therefore the Apostle describing the blessednesse of the Saints in heaven, saith, that thus the spirits of just men are made perfect, Heb. 12. 24. But God is perfection, and he is the chiefest perfection; not only as to himself, but also as to us; that he is perfection to himself, is evident by his own al-sufficiency, and by his own infinitenesse (al-sufficiency is perfection, and infinitenesse is perfection, and independency on any, is a perfection of, and no it, self) and that he is a perfection, and the chiefest of perfection unto us is as evident; for,