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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. Another is, To witness unto us our present standing in grace, and relation 1unto God: you read this plainly in Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. 1 John 5. 8. Th•re are three •hat bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blo•d.
2. Another is, To witnesse unto us our present standing in grace, and relation 1unto God: you read this plainly in Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit it self beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God. 1 John 5. 8. Th•re are three •hat bear witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blo•d.
- 1To witness our present standing in grace.
A Witness is one who gives in a Testimony against a man, or for a man; and he is of use in all doubtful and litigious cases, in all suits and trials; Satan puts it many times in debate by his accusations, Thou art not right, thou art not the child of God, thou presumest, thou deceivest thy self; In this or such like cases, there are two Witnesses for the Christian. 1. One is his own Spirit. 2. The other is Gods Sprt; Saith conscience (this is the spirit of man) I know that his heart is ight, and that he belongs to God. And saith the Spirit of God (who searcheth the heart, ad knows me, and all which himself hath wrought in the heart) and I know that he is born again, for I regenerated him; and I know that he is a child of God, for he hath received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby he crieth Abba-Father.