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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. Unio arcta, a very near union; so near is that union, that (in a proportion) it doth answer the union 'twixt Christ and God his Father (John 17. 22. That they may be one, even as we are one) and that we are entitled with the very Name of Christ himself, 1 Cor. 12. 12. and that we are said to die with Christ, and to live and rise with Christ; and our sufferings are styled his sufferings, Col. 1. 24. and the persecution of Christians, the persecution of Christ; Acts 9. 4, 5. Why persecutest thou me?
1. Unio arcta, a very near union; so near is that union, that (in a proportion) it doth answer the union 'twixt Christ and God his Father (John 17. 22. That they may be one, even as we are one) and that we are entitled with the very Name of Christ himself, 1 Cor. 12. 12. and that we are said to die with Christ, and to live and rise with Christ; and our sufferings are stiled his sufferings, Col. 1. 24. and the persecution of Christians, the persecution of Christ; Acts 9. 4, 5. Why persecutest thou me?
2. Firma, a very firm and lasting union; therefore our marriage with him, is called an everlasting marriage, Hosea 2. 19. And Christ saith of every believer (who hath union with him) that he dwells in him,