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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.
4. Yea, go where you will, and pitch on any objects whatsoever, and 1let them all fall into your possession, yet, is your condition low, imperfect, needy, unhappy, unless you come to enjoy God; therefore he only is your perfection.
4. Yea, go where you will, and pitch on any objects whatsoever, and 1let them all fall into your possession, yet, is your condition low, imperfect, needy, unhappy, unlesse you come to enjoy God; therefore he only is your perfection.
- 1In all other enjoyments, our condition is low without God. Blessedness is our rest.In all other enjoyments, our condition is low without God. Blessednesse is our rest.
2. Blessedness is a quietation. It is our rest, our centre where our souls quietly rest, and neither do, nor can move any further. It is our Fathers house unto which we are travelling, and unto which when we arrive, we are then at our journeys end.
2. Blessednesse is a quietation. It is our rest, our center where our souls quietly rest, and neither do, nor can move any further. It is our Fathers house unto which we are travelling, and unto which when we arrive, we are then at our journies end.
Blessedness is that enjoyment, beyond which we cannot move in our desires, for any better or further enjoyment: It concludes and puts a full period