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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. By way of affection; for as we are united to Christ by Faith, so God is 1united to us by love; when he loves us, he joins himself to us (union being an immediate effect of love) and where he unites himself, there he is a blessedness.
3. By way of affection; for as we are united to Christ by Faith, so God is 1united to us by love; when he loves us, he joynes himself to us (union being an immediate effect of love) and where he unites himself, there he is a blessedness.
- 1By way of affection.
4. Communion. This Communion of God with us, is our great happiness on earth, and shall be our everlasting happiness in heaven, and it doth consist 1in Gods gracious opening and manifesting of himself unto the soul; not simply in his loving of us, but especially in the manifesting that love unto us; not simply in his delight, but especially in manifesting that delight of his in us towards us, and in the imparting of his goodness to us; and verily in this communion doth our blessedness consist; namely, that God doth manifest himself in love, and grace, and glory to us.
- 1Communion.
3. That every one who hath God for his God in Covenant, doth enjoy every