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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.
1. The first gift which God gives unto sinners, is himself in Christ; He doth 1not first give you grace and strength against sin, and then become your God; but first he becomes your God, and being so, he promiseth to give grace and glory to you; as communion with Christ is not precedent unto, but a subsequent of union with him; y•• have not the righteousness of Christ, and the redemption of Christ first, and after them the enjoyment of Christ himself; but first you have Christ, and after that you enjoy communion in all his benefits; So first God is your God, and then comes in all the graces of the Spirit, and power against sin, and strength for new obedience.
1. The first gift which God gives unto sinners, is himself in Christ; He doth 1not first give you grace and strength against sinne, and then become your God; but first he becomes your God, and being so, he promiseth to give grace and glory to you; as communion with Christ is not precedent unto, but a subsequent of union with him; y•• have not the righteousnesse of Christ, and the redemption of Christ first, and after them the enjoyment of Christ himself; but first you have Christ, and after that you enjoy communion in all his benefits; So first God is your God, and then comes in all the graces of the Spirit, and power against sin, and strength for new obedience.
- 1The first gift which God gives to sinners is himself in Christ.
2. God doth not expect that you should bring, but receive; not bring holiness to him, and power to him, but receive holiness from him, and power from 1him; Doth the Physician expect that his Patient should bring physic to him, or receive physic from him? Do we bring water to the fountain? no, but we do fetch it from the fountain. The Lord doth not impose this on you, that you should first make your selves holy, and then come into Covenant; but this is it which he saith, Take me to be your God, and I will make you holy, and I will subdue your iniquities: the giving, changing, strengthening, working part belongs to God; the craving, the willing, the receiving part belongs to you. God is willing to give these, and if you be willing to receive these, This is enough for admission into Covenant.