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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.
A•d verily a greater Testimony, and surer witness cannot be had then the Testimony and Witness of the Spirit of God who knows all things, and is truth.
A•d verily a greater Testimony, and surer witnesse cannot be had then the Testimony and Witnesse of the Spirit of God who knows all •hings, and is truth.
3. A third Office of the Spirit is to seal us in respect of our future happiness; 1and this also the Scriptures expressly deliver, Eph. 1. 13. In whom after the believed, ⟨p. 69⟩ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Verse 14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession. Eph. 4. 30. Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption; The sealing of the Spirit is that assuring confirmation unto the hearts of believers, that the heavenly inheritance purchased by the blood of Christ is theirs; and that they (when this day of full Redemption comes) shall assuredly possess and enjoy it.
3. A third Office of the Spirit is to seal us in respect of our future happinesse; 1and this also the Scriptures expresly deliver, Eph. 1. 13. In whom after ye believed, ⟨p. 69⟩