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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.
5. The Spirit helps them in the darknesses upon their spirits; my meaning is, 1in all the with-drawments of Gods favour and light of countenance, and in all the sad apprehensions of their own spiritual condition; when they think God is become their enemy, and that themselves are forgotten of God, and cast off by God, and have no interest, nor hope in Christ. Now in these times the Spirit of God works and helps, supplies, supports, stirs up faith against hope to believe in hope, and against our own feelings, yet to pray, and trust, and wait, and look for God.
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6. He helps them in the captivities of their souls: As when sin or Satan 1(in this or that particular) have been too subtle, and too strong for them, and have prevailed over them, so that they are fallen and not able to rise; even then in this condition doth the Spirit of God by his wonderful graces, help them up again; he makes them to see their sins, and bewail them, and raise them by renewing and strengthening faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
6. He helps them in the captivities of their souls: As when sinne or Satan 1(in this or that particular) have been too subtile, and too strong for them, and have prevailed over them, so that they are fallen and not able to rise; even then in this condition doth the Spirit of God by his wonderful graces, help them up again; he makes them to see their sinnes, and bewail them, and raise them by renewing and strengthening faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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