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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
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3. Blessedness is that good which is most desirable, and most delightful; for it is the greatest goodness, and therefore is most desirable, and because so, therefore it is the most delightful: It is the end for which all other things are desired, and it is the full possession of all that we have longed and waited for. Now God is the most desirable good; He is so in himself, (for he is goodness 1it self, and he is desirable for himself alone, and so is no other good) And he is so in the hearts of his people: Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee, Psal. 73. 25. And God is the most delightful good; there cannot be any object whatsoever, which can so please, and so take, and so affect, and glad and rejoice the heart, as God doth; His manifestations are a very Paradise, and a very heaven in the hearts of his people; they make them to rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.
3. Blessednesse is that good which is most desirable, and most delightful; for it is the greatest goodnesse, and therefore is most desirable, and because so, therefore it is the most delightful: It is the end for which all other things are desired, and it is the full possession of all that we have longed and waited for. Now God is the most desirable good; He is so in himself, (for he is goodnesse 1it self, and he is desirable for himself alone, and so is no other good) And he is so in the hearts of his people: Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee, Psal. 73. 25. And God is the most delightful good; there cannot be any object whatsoever, which can so please, and so take, and so affect, and glad and rejoyce the heart, as God doth; His manifestations are a very Paradise, and a very heaven in the hearts of his people; they make them to rejoyce with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.
- 1God is the most desirable good.