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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.
Quest. But you may demand, What is it to be perfect or upright and to walk so 1before God?
- 1To walk uprightly, is
Sol. I answer, it is
1. To walk without guile. This is the periphrasis of an upright man, that 1he is one in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal. 32. 2. (that is) his heart is sound and real, there is truth in his inward parts; he is one who loves God with his very heart, and hates sin with his very soul: and so, to walk uprightly, it is to walk plainly; To walk before God in truth, as Hezekiah expresseth it in Isa. 38. 3. Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, &c. It is not to make a show, a pretence, as if we would follow the Lord, as if we would obey his voice, as if we would order our conversation according to his Word; but it is unfeignedly to endeavour this, to walk in all well-pleasing before God; He that walks uprightly, he doth choose the ways of God for his ways, and sets up the Will of God (revealed in h•s Word) as the rule of his course, and cordially strives to come up unto that Will of God.
1. To walk without guile. This is the periphrasis of an upright man, that