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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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2. He actuates your faith to look on all these fountains of joy, and wells of comfort, as set open for the good and help of your souls.
3. He applies all of them unto your souls: he makes it evident that God loves your souls, and that Christ died for your souls, and that you are justified by faith in him, and are reconciled and pardoned, and accepted unto life; and hereupon he fills you with all joy in believing, even with joy unspeakable and glorious. You cannot imagine what a comfort it is to have the Spirit of God to be our comfort; for
1. His comforts are choice comforts; There is no more comparison 'twixt the 1comforts of the world, and the comforts of the Spirit, than between the light of the Candle, and the light of the Sun; they are the very comforts of God; they are the very drops out of the Wells of Salvation; they are drawn out from the proper and only grounds of joy. They are comforts which (of all other) do most punctually answer the distresses of your souls.
1. His comforts are choice comforts; There is no more comparison 'twixt the 1comforts of the world, and the comforts of the Spirit, than between the light of the Candle, and the light of the Sunne; they are the very comforts of God; they are the very drops out of the Wells of Salvation; they are drawn out from the proper and only grounds of joy. They are comforts which (of all other) do most punctually answer the distresses of your souls.
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