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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.
His hand is upon your hand, his strength is upon your strength, his grace is upon his own grace; As all your graces have their being from his power of life, so they have their working from his power of influence too. He it is who worketh in you to will and to do.
4. The Spirit helps them in the conflicts of grace; when inward temptations arise 1out of your own hearts, and when outward temptations […] in from Satan, alas, your own strength is insufficient to conquer for you; […] maintain the fight for you, unless the Spirit of God put forth his actual help; unless he take your part, what one temptation of lust, of doubt, of fear, is not too hard for you? and what one temptation from Satan is not too strong for you? Every little touch throws down, or hazards the weak child; so this, &c. But this is your comfort, that in all your spiritual conflicts you are sure of the Spirits presence to own his own graces, and to defend and secure them. His gracious presence shall be sufficient for you, 2 Cor. 12. 9. and his power makes it self manifest in your weakness; he will be near to help you, strengthen you, to make you to resist, and to conquer, and to be more than conquerors through ⟨p. 67⟩Christ that loved you. We are strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, Eph. 6. 10.
4. The Spirit helps them in the conflicts of grace; when inward temptations arise 1out of your own hearts, and when outward temptations 〈…〉 in from Satan, alas, your own strength is insufficient to conquer for you; 〈…〉 maintain the fight for you, unlesse the Spirit of God put forth his actual help; unlesse he take your part, what one temptation of lust, of doubt, of feare, is not too hard for you? and what one temptation from Satan is not too strong for you? Every little touch throws down, or hazards the weak child; so this, &c. But this is your comfort, that in all your spiritual conflicts you are sure of the Spirits presence to own his own graces, and to defend and secure them. His gracious presence shall be sufficient for you,