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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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O Christians! This perfect walking with God, this becomes the people of God; and this is most pleasing to God, when your hearts indeed are set on God, and let out for God, and continually set on the Word of God; when your ways are still the ways of God, and your works the works of God, and your paths the paths of God: when there is no way of wickedness wherein you may be found: and when there is no path of holiness and righteousness wherein you are not to be found: when you love your God with all your hearts, and serve your God with all your might: when you would not willingly do the least evil, but fear it; nor knowingly omit or neglect the greatest duty, but assay and comply with it: when your weaknesses are your griefs, and the highest pitches of holiness are your desires and aims: when though you fall, yet you will rise; and when you have got some ground, you must still go further: when you are exactly careful to do your utmost in the fruits of righteousness, and give glory to God alone; when you study your services, and his praises alone, this is to walk uprightly, this is to be perfect with your perfect God, this is to be wholly his, as he is wholly yours; this is to bestow all on him, who bestows all on you; this is to value the enjoyment of your God alone, as a sufficient portion and satisfaction that you need not at all to swerve from him, and this is to count your God most worthy of your hearts, and of your lives; this is the honour of your Covenant-Relation, the delight of your God, the beauty of your lives, the path of your peace, the joy of your conscience, and the fore-runner of your glory.
O Christians! This perfect walking with God, this becomes the people of God; and this is most pleasing to God, when your hearts indeed are set on God, and let out for God, and continually set on the Word of God; when your wayes are still the wayes of God, and your works the works of God, and your paths the paths of God: when there is no way of wickednesse wherein you may be found: and when there is no path of holinesse and righteousnesse wherein you are not to be found: when you love your God with all your hearts, and serve your God with all your might: when you would not willingly do the least evil, but fear it; nor knowingly omit or neglect the greatest duty, but assay and comply with it: when your weaknesses are your griefs, and the highest pitches of holinesse are your desires and aimes: when though you fall, yet you will rise; and when you have got some ground, you must still go further: when you are exactly careful to do your utmost in the fruits of righteousnesse, and give glory to God alone; when you study your services, and his praises alone, this is to walk uprightly, this is to be perfect with your perfect God, this is to be wholly his, as he is wholly yours; this is to bestow all on him, who bestowes all on you; this is to value the enjoyment of your God alone, as a sufficient portion and satisfaction that you need not at all to swerve from him, and this is to count your God most worthy of your hearts, and of your lives; this is the honour of your Covenant-Relation, the delight of your God, the beauty of your lives, the path of your peace, the joy of your conscience, and the fore-runner of your glory.