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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.
1. The Spirit is yours in respect of his Titles and Attributes: he is called sometimes,
1. The Spirit of God, 1 Cor. 2. 11. and the Spirit of Christ, Rom. 8. 9. and the Spirit of glory, 1 Pet. 4. 14. This very Spirit is given unto you, who have God to be your God; we have received the Spirit which is of God, 1 Cor. 2. 12 God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, Gal. 4. 6. O what a glory is this? what a dignity? what a comfort? that the same Spirit which is in Christ, is also in you? that you have Christ, and you have the Spirit of Christ.
2. The holy Spirit: Grieve not the holy Spirit of God. Ephess. 4. 30. sealed with 1that holy Spirit of promise, Ephes. 1. 13. above eighty times is the Spirit of God styled the holy Ghost, or Spirit, in the Scripture. And under this notion also is he given unto you; as we are said in Heb. 3. 14. to be partakers of Christ, so are we said in Heb. 6. 4