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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.
1. The presence of Christ (I mean his bodily presence only) was not comfortable without the presence of the Spirit. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, so Christ, Joh. 6. 63.
2. The absence of Christ now in heaven, is made up unto us by the presence of his Spirit now within us here on earth. The Spirit only supplies his absence, and makes our condition as good, and as happy as if Christ himself were present with us.
3. The presence of the Spirit makes all to be present with us; all are present by the presence of the Spirit; God comes to be present, and Christ comes to be present, and joy and salvation come to be present by the presence of the Spirit.
4. And are you not safe and sure with whom the Spirit of God is, and will be always present? He is present with your souls, with your faith, with your graces, and he can give you present strength, and present help, and present victory, and present comforts.