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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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1. The suretyship of Christ; in Heb. 7. 22. Christ is said to be made a surety 1of a better Covenant; (so I conceive the word should be rendered, viz. Covenant, and not Testament; for a surety is not of a Testament, but of a Covenant) A surety is one who is engaged and stands bound for another, and is responsible for him; as Judah for Benjamin, Gen. 43. 9. I will be surety for him, of my hands shall they require him. And in matters of contract 'twixt person and persons, a surety is taken in for this very end, That the contract may be made sure and good, may not fail, but be truly and perfectly performed; and the surety is a distinct person undertaking and engaging in the behalf of him who is of himself the more weak and insufficient contractor. As to this consideration, Christ is styled the surety of the Covenant, because he is a third person engaged not so much for God, as unto God on our behalf, that all that we are obliged for in Covenant unto God, shall be truly and faithfully made good and performed; He (as our surety) stands bound to fill us with those graces, to give us those affections, and to supply us with such a sufficiency of strength, as for ever to cleave unto the Lord in dependence and love, and to walk before him in truth, and to serve him in holiness and righteousness all out days.
1. The suretiship of Christ; in Heb. 7. 22. Christ is said to be made a surety 1of a better Covenant; (so I conceive the word should be rendred, viz. Covenant, and not Testament; for a surety is not of a Testament, but of a Covenant) A surety is one who is engaged and stands bound for another, and is responsable for him; as Judah for Benjamine, Gen. 43. 9. I will be surety for him, of my hands shall they require him. And in matters of contract 'twixt person and persons, a surety is taken in for this very end, That the contract may be made sure and good, may not faile, but be truly and perfectly performed; and the surety is a distinct person undertaking and engaging in the behalf of him who is of himself the more weak and insufficient contractor. As to this consideration, Christ is stiled the surety of the Covenant, because he is a third person engaged not so much for God, as unto God on our behalf, that all that we are obliged for in Covenant unto God, shall be truly and faithfuly made good and performed; He (as our surety) stands bound to fill us with those graces, to give us those affections, and to supply us with such a sufficiency of strength, as for ever to cleave unto the Lord in dependance and love, and to walk before him in truth, and to serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all out dayes.