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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. Conformity; as our unhappiness consists in dissimilitude (the more unlike 1any man is to God, the more unhappy is that man) where nothing of God appears, there nothing of happiness appears, (for there can be nothing but darkness, where there is nothing of light.) So on the contrary, our happiness depends upon similitude with God; The more like we are to him, the more blessed are we. The Apostle delivers this as our very blessedness, that when he appears we shall be like him, 1 Joh. 3. 2. Hence it is, that holy persons are styled blessed persons: Blessed are the pure in heart, Matth. 5. 8. and holiness is happiness. Imperfect holiness, is imperfect happiness; and perfect holiness is perfect happiness. The more holy you are, the more like to God you are; and the more like you are to him, the more blessed you are. The more you partake of the Divine Nature, (which is the only blessed Nature) the more do you partake of blessedness, for God is now the more yours.
2. Conformity; as our unhappinesse consists in dissimilitude (the more unlike 1any man is to God, the more unhappy is that man) where nothing of God appears, there nothing of happinesse appears, (for there can be nothing but darknesse, where there is nothing of light.) So on the contrary, our happinesse depends upon similitude with God; The more like we are to him, the more blessed are we. The Apostle delivers this as our very blessednesse, that when he appears we shall be like him, 1 Joh. 3. 2. Hence it is, that holy persons are stiled blessed persons: Blessed are the pure in heart, Matth. 5. 8. and holinesse is happinesse. Imperfect holinesse, is imperfect happinesse; and perfect holinesse is perfect happinesse. The more holy you are, the more like to God you are; and the more like you are to him, the more blessed you are. The more you partake of the Divine Nature, (which is the only blessed Nature) the more do you partake of blessednesse, for God is now the more yours.