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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. The union 'twixt Christ and the people of the Covenant. That there is an 1union 'twixt Christ and believers, is most evident in Scripture; I am my Beloveds, and my Beloved is mine, so the Church speaks of Christ, Cant. 6. 3. in respect of which union, Christ and believers are styled the head and the body, Eph. 1. 22. A foundation, and a building, Eph. 2. 20, 21. 1 Pet. 2. 4, 5. A Vine and the branches, John 15. 5. A husband and wife, 2 Cor. 11. 2. Eph. 5. 32. And Christ dwells in us, and we in him, John 6. 54. He lives in us, Galatians 2. 20. (Christ liveth in me) and we live in him, Col. 3. 3.
3. The union 'twixt Christ and the people of the Covenant. That there is an 1union 'twixt Christ and believers, is most evident in Scripture; I am my Beloveds, and my Beloved is mine, so the Church speaks of Christ, Cant. 6. 3. in respect of which union, Christ and believers are stiled the head and the body, Eph. 1. 22. A foundation, and a building,