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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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3. To walk uprightly, is to walk fully and wholly with God. Beloved, this is a very truth, 1That when a mans heart is false and unsound, there is then an inequality and disproportion 'twixt the Will of God and his hear• this heart cannot possibly extend it self to the extent of Gods Will, nor raise it self to the height of Gods will: the will of God seems too large, and too strict; some one thing or other it requires too much, and something or other it forbids too much; but if a person be upright, his heart and Gods will be commensurable; though the act be short, yet the heart is not short; the heart of an upright man is as full of obedience, as Gods Commands are of righteousness: and he strives to come up fully and wholly to the Will of his God. My servant Caleb hath followed me fully, Numb. 14. 24. They seek him with their whole heart, Psal. 119. 2. They are perfecting holiness in the fear of God, 2 Cor. 7. 1. Let us go on to perfection, Heb. 6. 1. They go from strength to strength, Psa. 84. 7. I strive if by any means, &c. Phil. 3. 11.
3. To walk uprightly, is to walk fully and wholly with God. Beloved, this is a very truth, 1That when a mans heart is false and unfound, there is then aninequality and disproportion 'twixt the Will of God and his hear• this heart cannot possibly extend it self to the extent of Gods Will, nor raise it self to the height of Gods will: the will of God seems too large, and too strict; some one thing or other it requires too much, and something or other it forbids too much; but if a person be upright, his heart and Gods will be commensuerable; though the act be short, yet the heart is not short; the heart of an upright man is as full of obedience, as Gods Commands are of righteousnesse: and he strives to come up fully and wholly to the Will of his God. Mr servant Caleb hath followed me fully,