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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.
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 ⟨p. 28⟩to all the motions of the soul; Now God is, and he only is the quiet, rest, and end of the soul. O Lord, saith Austin, My heart was made for thee, 1and never is at re•• till it come unto thee. There is a restlessness in man in all other enjoyments; his soul rests not, though he enjoys honours, or riches, or friends, or health, or liberty; yea, though he enjoys grace and comfort; But when he comes to enjoy God himself, now he is at rest; Now he can say as David, Return to thy rest, O my soul, Psal. 116. 7. There is no more to be desired or enjoyed; for blessedness is a complete and fixed satisfaction to the soul; it fills up all wants, and all desires, and therefore it gives rest and quiet; and so doth God; The Rabbins say, that all the letters in the Name Jehovah, are litterae quiescentes, letters of rest.2
Blessednesse is that enjoyment, beyond which we cannot move in our desires, for any better or further enjoyment: It concludes and puts a full period ⟨p. 28⟩to all the motions of the soul; Now God is, and he only is the quiet, rest, and end of the soul. O Lord, saith Austin, My heart was made for thee, 1and never is at re•• till it come unto thee. There is a restlessenesse in man in all other enjoyments; his soul rests not, though he enjoyes honours, or riches, or friends, or health, or liberty; yea, though he enjoyes grace and comfort; But when he comes to enjoy God himself, now he is at rest; Now he can say as David, Return to thy rest, O my soul, Psal. 116. 7. There is no more to be desired or enjoyed; for blessednesse is a compleat and fixed satisfaction to the soul; it fills up all wants, and all desires, and therefore it gives rest and quiet; and so doth God; The Rabbins say, that all the letters in the Name Jehovah, are litterae quiescentes, letters of rest.