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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.
And so for the Spirit; He loves you so, that he lays out the utmost of his power, and the choicest of his gifts and graces upon your souls.
And so for the Spirit; He loves you so, that he layes out the utmost of his power, and the choicest of his gifts and graces upon your souls.
3. It is the sweetest of all loves; There is no love whatsoever which affords more delight, contentment, and satisfaction unto the hearts of men: Thy love is better 1than wine, so the Church speaks of Christ, Cant. 1. 2. Thy loving kindness is better than life; so speaks David of the love of God, Psal. 63. 3. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, 1 Joh. 3. 1. so sweet is the love of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Spirit, that in the apprehension and enjoyment thereof, the soul is satisfied as with marrow; It is a kind of heaven unto us; every faculty of the soul is affected with it, and by it is filled with joys, and praises, and love again to God.
3. It is the sweetest of all loves; There is no love whatsoever which affords more delight, contentment, and satisfaction unto the hearts of men: Thy love is better 1than wine, so the Church speaks of Christ, Cant. 1. 2. Thy loving kindnesse is better than life; so speaks David of the love of God, Psal. 63. 3. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,