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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. It is necessary unto glory, unto that glory which shall be revealed, unto 1the exceedingly exceeding weight of glory, unto that eternal glory, that heavenly happiness, as a means is necessary to an end; as a lower step to arise unto an higher. Heb. 12. 14. Follow holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. 1 John 3. 3. Every man that hath this hope, purifieth himself as he is pure.
3. It is necessary unto glory, unto that glory which shall be revealed, unto 1the exceedingly exceeding weight of glory, unto that eternal glory, that heavenly happiness, as a means is necessary to an end; as a lower step to arise unto an higher. Heb. 12. 14. Follow holinesse, without which no man shall see the Lord. 1 John 3. 3. Every man that hath this hope, purifieth himself as he is pure.
- 1It is necessary unto glory.
4. It is necessary unto your present communion with God. He cannot take delight in you, nor will he be near you, nor impart himself unto you, unless 1you be holy. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 2 Cor. 6. 14. You read in the Law, that all was holy which had a respect unto God; the Altar was holy, and the Temple was holy, and the offerings were holy, and the persons who offered them were holy; To intimate unto us that there could or might not be any communion with the holy God without holiness.