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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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Now judge of the blessedness of having the Spirit; He is the cause of our union, and he is the cause of our unction: he brings us into Christ, and he anoints us with the same grace wherewith Christ himself was anointed, so that we are like Christ himself; we are anointed with the same Spirit, and therefore we must needs be excellent and choice persons, and very lovely in the eyes of God.
Now judge of the blessednesse of having the Spirit; He is the cause of our union, and he is the cause of our unction: he brings us into Christ, and he anoints us with the same grace wherewith Christ himself was anointed, so that we are like Christ himself; we are anointed with the same Spirit, and therefore we must needs be excellent and choice persons, and very lovely in the eyes of God.
3. He doth reveal unto us, the highest, and the choicest things of salvation; He is called the Spirit of Revelation, Eph. 1. 17. because he opens 1and reveals those things unto the people of God, which are hid from the eyes of others.
- 1He revealeth to us the choicest things of salvation.