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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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2. A faith of dependence upon Christ particularly for his great satisfactions 1unto God; that is, we must depend upon the blood of Christ, and by faith offer that up as a satisfaction for all our sins and transgressions which have all this while kept God and us at distance and difference; his blood is the sacrifice by which Gods justice is satisfied; and truly until divine justice be satisfied for our sins, there is no hope of a Covenant to be made 'twixt God and us; and therefore by faith look upon the blood of Christ, and offer up that blood by faith; Lord, here is the blood of the Covenant, here is the blood of Christ to satisfy for my sins, and to expiate my sins; now in this blood of his become my God in Covenant.
2. A faith of dependance upon Christ particularly for his great satisfactions 1unto God; that is, we must depend upon the blood of Christ, and by faith offer that up as a satisfaction for all our sinnes and transgressions which have all this while kept God and us at distance and difference; his blood is the sacrifice by which Gods justice is satisfied; and truly untill divine justice be satisfied for our sinnes, there is no hope of a Covenant to be made 'twixt God and us; and therefore by faith look upon the blood of Christ, and offer up that blood by faith; Lord, here is the blood of the Covenant, here is the blood of Christ to satisfie for my sinnes, and to expiate my sinnes; now in this blood of his become my God in Covenant.
- 1A faith of dependence.A faith of dependance.
3. A faith of reliance upon the mediation of Christ as the atonement and 1peace, and reconciliation; Christ did make peace by his blood, and he did reconcile us by it,