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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.
3. Union. As dissimilitude with God, hinders God from being our blessedness: 1so likewise doth distance from God; this must necessarily be so; for if God be blessedness, then a distance from God, is likewise a distance from blessedness; of necessity there must be a nearness; yea, such a nearness as makes a union, which must make up a blessedness unto us; and indeed here lies our blessedness, that God unites himself unto us, and we are united to him. He unites 2himself unto us,
3. Ʋnion. As dissimilitude with God, hinders God from being our blessedness: 1so likewise doth distance from God; this must necessarily be so; for if God be blessedness, then a distance from God, is likewise a distance from blessedness; of necessity there must be a nearness; yea, such a nearness as makes a union, which must make up a blessednesse unto us; and indeed here lies our blessedness, that God unites himself unto us, and we are united to him. He unites 2himself unto us,
- 1Union.
- 2God unites himself to us. By way of donation.
1. By way of donation; in that he gives himself unto us, even as an husband gives himself unto the wife, Hos. 2. 19.