A59035:758
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.
8. They have immunity from the Kingdom and power of darkness: You are no 1longer under the Prince of the power of the Air, the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, Ephes. 2. 2. The Devil is dispossessed, and cast down, and cast out; he is still your enemy, but he shall never be your Lord more; he may tempt you and disquiet you, but command and rule over you he shall never do. Though the Devil be very busy and active with you, yet he shall never regain possession, never con•uer your graces, never part you and your God, never hinder you of your inheritance.
8. They have immunity from the Kingdome and power of darkness: You are no 1longer under the Prince of the power of the Aire, the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, Ephes. 2. 2. The Divel is dispossessed, and cast down, and cast out; he is still your enemy, but he shall never be your Lord more; he may tempt you and disquiet you, but command and rule over you he shall never do. Though the Divel be very busie and active with you, yet he shall never regain possession, never con•uer your graces, never part you and your God, never hinder you of your inheritance.
- 1From the Kingdom of darkness.From the Kingdome of darknesse.
9. They have immunity from death; there is the first death, and the second 1death; or there is a three-fold death; there is the death of the soul, and the death of the body, and the death of soul and body. 1. Spiritual death, that is, the death of the soul. 2. Corporal death, that is, the death of the body. 3. Eternal death, that is, the death of soul and body. Now all the people of God are freed from spiritual death by the grace of Christ, and from eternal death by the blood of Christ, and from corporal death, though not absolutely or simply, yet respectively, so far forth as sin hath made it dreadful, and our enemy, and prejudicial to us; Though you must dye, yet your death is but your sleep, and is but your strait passage into life: The death of death is removed from you by the death of Christ. Vide