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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. To wa•k with a single respect unto God, without mixture of ways, and mixture 1of ends; upright men are therefore styled simple men, Matthew 10. 16. That is simple which is without mixture; which is not partly one thing, and partly another thing; partly gold, and partly dross; partly honey, and partly wax, partly mire, and partly water; but it is Homogeneal, all alike to the substance of it: So upright men are single or simple men; they have but one heart, and but one object, and but one way or path, and but one end or aim. ⟨p. 97⟩God only is t•• great object of […] and Gods way only is the path of their life; and Gods glory is only the end of their working and walking; It is not sin and God, it is not the world and God, it is not a trade of sin and a trade of holy profession, it is not their own praise and Gods glory, their own benefit and Gods honour that they mingle together; This is hypocrisy: But it is God only whom they set up, and his ways only wherein they walk, and his glory only which they seek: And therefore the course of all their actions, hath a sincere reference and subserviency thereunto, so that God may have glory.
2. To wa•k with a single respect unto God, without mixture of wayes, and mixture 1of ends; upright men are therefore stiled simple men, Matthew 10. 16. That is simple which is without mixture; which is not partly one thing, and partly another thi•g; partly gold, and partly drosse; partly honey, and partly wax, pattly mire, and partly water; but it is Homogeneal, all alike to the substance of it: So upright men are single or simple men; they have but one heart, and but one object, and but one way or path, and but one end or aim. ⟨p. 97⟩