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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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Beloved, what can be said more to express the happiness and comfort of the people of God, in having God to be their God? the Father is theirs, the Son of God is theirs, and the Spirit of God is theirs; theirs in his graces, theirs in his comforts, theirs in Offices witnessing their present condition in grace, and assuring them of their future inheritance in glory; what more happiness can be enjoyed on earth than this!
Beloved, what can be said more to expresse the happinesse and comfort of the people of God, in having God to be their God? the Father is theirs, the Sonne of God is theirs, and the Spirit of God is theirs; theirs in his graces, theirs in his comforts, theirs in Offices witnessing their present condition in grace, and assuring them of their future inheritance in glory; what more happinesse can be enjoyed on earth than this!
7. Lastly. The Spirit is yours in respect of his presence. Joh. 14. 17. The Spirit 1of truth dwelleth with you. Rom. 8. 11. By his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 2 Tim. 1. 14. By the holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. It is observable concerning the presence of the Trinity, that every one of the persons is said to dwell in believers; God the Father doth dwell in them, 2 Cor. 6. 16. The Son doth dwell in them; Christ dwells in our hearts by faith, Eph. 2. 17. The holy Ghost likewise dwells in us.
7. Lastly. The Spirit is yours in respect of his presence. Joh. 14. 17