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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.
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.
- 1The more you enjoy him, the less need of other things.The more you enjoy him, the lesse need of other things.
3. He fully makes up the wants of your souls; and therefore he is our perfection. 1Survey all the wants and complaints of the soul; he can supply them all; and all from himself alone; and therefore certainly God is our perfection.
3. He fully makes up the wants of your souls; and therefore he is our perfection. 1Survey all the wants and complaints of the soule; he can supply them all; and all from himself alone; and therefore certainly God is our perfection.