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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. What that is in and from God which makes up our blessedness, or a blessedness 1unto us.
- 1What that is, in and from God, which is a blessedness unto us. Propriety.
There are four things which do it.
1. Propriety. Though God be an infinite blessedness in and to himself, whether we have any interest and propriety in him or not, yet he is not our blessedness without propriety; he must be our God, if he be our blessedness. Propriety in blessedness, is our blessedness. He is rich who hath riches, and he is great who hath greatness; the seeing of lands, makes no estate unto us, but the possession of them, and propriety in them, this doth it.
2. Conformity; as our unhappiness consists in dissimilitude (the more unlike