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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.
And there are six things wherein the Spirit is an help unto all the people of God.
1. In all their Communions with God. 2. In the weaknesses of all their graces. 3. In the actings of every grace. 4. In the conflicts of grace. 5. In the darkness upon their spirits. 6. In the […] of their souls.
1. In all their Communions with God. 2. In the weaknesses of all their graces. 3. In the actings of every grace. 4. In the conflicts of grace. 5. In the darknesse upon their spirits. 6. In the 〈…〉 of their souls.
1. The Spirit […] them in in all their communions with God; in their Meditations 1of God, in their hearing of the Word of God, in their addresses of prayer unto God; and as to this, the Apostle gives a special instance in that, Rom. 8. 26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered. When we are to pray, there is in us sometimes an infirmity of ignorance; we know not what to pray for, either for the matter, or for the manner; and there is in us sometimes an infirmity of deadness and dullness; we cannot pray with that fervency as we should, or as we would. But now the Spirit helps these infirmities by way of instruction; ⟨p. 66⟩Teaching us what (especially) to pray for; and by way of causation, in making intercession for us (that is) in quickening and enabling us to pray with groanings (that is) with such full and strong affections of heart, as cannot be uttered or expressed by words; Our straitened, and narrow, and barren hearts, are many times by the influence and assistance of Gods Spirit, enlarged and opened, and filled with a Spirit of supplication; with such an ardency, with such an earnestness, with such a copiousness, that after we have long insisted with God, yet we have not opened half our minds and desires unto God; it excites all our graces, and sets them a work: such an help is the Spirit unto us in praying unto God.