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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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2. You are taken into Covenant, that there might be a near relation 'twixt 1you and your God, and that there might be a delight full communion between God and you; but holiness is necessary to both these; you must be sanctified if you will be near unto him; for unholiness is the greatest distance from God, who is holiness it self; neither will he have fellowship with you without holiness, because similitude is the foundation of communion; there can be no fellowship 'twixt light and darkness, nor 'twixt God and Belial, 2 Cor. 6. 14. All your communions ⟨p. 96⟩with God are in acts of holiness, as a•l his communions with you are by his holy Spirit.
2. You are taken into Covenant, that there might be a near relation 'twixt 1you and your God, and that there might be a delight ful communion between God and you; but holinesse is necessary to both these; you must be sanctified if you will be near unto him; for unholinesse is the greatest distance from God, who is holinesse it self; neither will he have fellowship with you without holinesse, because similitude is the foundation of communion; there can be no fellowship 'twixt light and darkness, nor 'twixt God and Belial, 2 Cor. 6. 14. All your communions ⟨p. 96⟩with God are in acts of holinesse, as a•l his communions with you are by his holy Spirit.
- 1Holiness fits for communion with God.Holinesse fits for communion with God.