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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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4. If you would have God to be your God in Covenant, then you must get 1faith; for God is a God in Covenant only with believers: and there are three degrees of faith necessary unto this work; one is a faith of acceptance; a second 2is a faith of dependence; a third is a faith of reliance; I will explain my self in all these.
4. If you would have God to be your God in Covenant, then you must get 1faith; for God is a God in Covenant only with believers: and there are three degrees of faith necessary unto this work; one is a faith of acceptance; a second 2is a faith of dependance; a third is a faith of reliance; I will explain my self in all these.
- 1Get faith.
- 2Three degrees of faith necessary.
1. A faith of acceptance is necessary to put us into the Covenant, and to find 1God to be our God; that is, we must have so much faith as to accept of Christ, and to unite us unto Christ; for in that union twixt us and Christ, in this relation of God to us is he to be found; By him we have access unto the Father, Ephes. 2. Out of Christ you shall never find God to be reconciled unto you, nor to be your God: As to Christ, God first is a God in Covenant, and Father in Covenant; so to us, God becomes our God and our Father upon our being in Christ. Christ received the Covenant for himself, and for all who are his; he is as it were the head, and the principal in the Covenant; all his come into Covenant under him as in relation to him.