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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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5. It is a most free love: every one of the persons loves you with a love which ariseth 1only from love, not from any thing in your selves, nor for any benefit which can arise from you unto your selves; but only because they will love you, and are so pleased to love you: the love of the Father doth not find you, but make you children; the love of Christ doth not find you, but make you righteous; the love of the Spirit doth not find you, but make you holy: It is a communicating love: all the favour which you have, and all the good which you have, you have it wholly upon the mere account of the freeness and goodness of their love.
5. It is a most free love: every one of the persons loves you with a love which ariseth 1only from love, not from any thing in your selves, nor for any benefit which can arise from you unto your selves; but only because they will love you, and are so pleased to love you: the love of the Father doth not finde you, but make you children; the love of Christ doth not finde you, but make you righteous; the love of the Spirit doth not finde you, but make you holy: It is a communicating love: all the favour which you have, and all the good which you have, you have it wholly upon the meere account of the freenesse and goodnesse of their love.
- 1It is most free love.