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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. 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; 1you climb up to your perfection, as you climb up in your enjoyments of him: the more that you are brought into a likenesse of him, and into a fellowship with him, and a participation of his grace and love, and glory, the more perfect you are.
- 1The more or less you enjoy of God, the more or less perfect.The more or lesse you enjoy of God, the more or lesse perfect.
2. The more you do enjoy of him, the less need you will have of other things; 1And when you come fully to enjoy him, all your needs, and all your wants will be at an end. As nothing can be added to God, because he is an infinite perfection; So nothing can be added to our blessedness, besides God himself, when we come to enjoy him, and therefore he alone is our perfection.
2. The more you do enjoy of him, the lesse need you will have of other things; 1And when you come fully to enjoy him, all your needs, and all your wants will be at an end. As nothing can be added to God, because he is an infinite perfection; So nothing can be added to our blessednesse, besides God himselfe, when we come to enjoy him, and therefore he alone is our perfection.