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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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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, Colos. 1. 20, 21. And we who were sometimes afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ, Ephes. 2. 13.
- 1A faith of reliance.
I know not a more exact way to get God to be our God, than by getting into Christ, in whom alone our re-union with God is to be found, and by whom alone God and we are knit together again; not without cause is he called the Mediator of the new Covenant, who undertakes between God and us, (as you shall hear ere long) he undertakes to take away all which may keep up the difference 'twixt us, and he undertakes to present all which may make a reconciliation betwixt us; he doth make the way so open, and so clear, that our entrance into Covenant will certainly follow, if once we were possessed of him by faith; his blood being shed for the remission of our sins, and likewise to procure a reconciliation 'twixt God and us; and therefore above all things strive for faith to unite you to Christ, and then by faith plead out the reconciliation purchased by Christ.
I know not a more exact way to get God to be our God, than by getting into Christ, in whom alone our re-union with God is to be found, and by whom alone God and we are knit together again; not without cause is he called the Mediator of the new Covenant, who undertakes between God and us, (as you shall hear ere long) he undertakes to take away all which may keep up the difference 'twixt us, and he undertakes to present all which may make a reconciliation betwixt us; he doth make the way so open, and so clear, that our entrance into Covenant will certainly follow, if once we were possessed of him by faith; his blood being shed for the remission of our sinnes, and likewise to procure a reconciliation 'twixt God and us; and therefore above all things strive for faith to unite you to Christ, and then by faith plead out the reconciliation purchased by Christ.