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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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It is the Spirit which works grace in us; and it is the Spirit which makes grace (wrought in us) to work. You are not able (of your selves) to use the graces given unto you (when you please) without the influence and assistance of the Spirit of God. 1 Cor. 15. 10. By the grace of God I am that I am: and his grace bestowed upon me was not in vain. I laboured, yet not I, but the grace of God in me. Can you trust when you will? and mourn when you will? and fear when you will? and command your thoughts and passions when you will? and patiently bear the hand of God when you will? The light (if it were cut off from the influence and presence of the Sun) would not be light, nor give light at all: The arm if it were cut off from the body, it could not stir at all. Though the arm be grafted into the body, yet it stirs by influence from the head.
It is the Spirit which works grace in us; and it is the Spirit which makes grace (wrought in us) to work. You are not able (of your selves) to use the graces given unto you (when you please) without the influence and assistance of the Spirit of God. 1 Cor. 15. 10. By the grace of God I am that I am: and his grace bestowed upon me was not in vain. I laboured, yet not I, but the grace of God in me. Can you trust when you will? and mourn when you will? and fear when you will? and command your thoughs and passions when you will? and patiently bear the hand of God when you will? The light (if it were cut off from the influence and presence of the Sunne) would not be light, nor give light at all: The arme if it were cut off from the body, it could not stirre at all. Though the arme be grafted into the body, yet it stirres by influence from the head.
No grace that we have could move or act at all, were it not acted and moved by the Spirit of Christ; and therefore when you are to believe, he helps you to believe; and when you are to repent, he helps you to repent; and when you are to bless, he helps you to bless; and when you are to suffer, &c.