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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. 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,
1. The more or less you enjoy of him, the more, or the less perfect you are; 1you climb up to your perfection, as you climb up in your enjoyments of him: the more that you are brought into a likeness of him, and into a fellowship with him, and a participation of his grace and love, and glory, the more perfect you are.
1. The more or lesse you enjoy of him, the more, or the lesse perfect you are;