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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. 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.
1. A faith of acceptance is necessary to put us into the Covenant, and to finde 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 accesse unto the Father, Ephes. 2. Out of Christ you shall never finde 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.
- 1A faith of acceptance.
2. A faith of dependence upon Christ particularly for his great satisfactions 1