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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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'Tis true, That Adam in innocency enjoyed a larger measure of knowledge, and righteousness, and had also free communion with God, without fear, and had dominion over the creatures. But yet he had not knowledge of God in Christ: nor any communion with God through Christ, nor had he any manifestations of the glories of the Gospel by the Spirit of Christ; and besides all this, whatsoever enjoyments Adam had which might make up a happy estate unto him, yet all that enjoyment was mutable and contingent: But now in and by the Covenant of Grace, our enjoyments are higher, and they are also surer.
1. They are higher, for now we enjoy God, not only as a Creator, but as a Father: 1we enjoy him a merciful, and gracious, and abundant in goodness and truth: and we enjoy Jesus Christ in a way of union with his person (being bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, as the Apostle speaks, Ephes. 5. 30.) and in a way of communion in his death, and life, and victories, and purchases: and we enjoy the very Spirit of Christ, as to all his graces, and comforts, and assurances.
1. They are higher, for now we enjoy God, not only as a Creator, but as a Father: 1we enjoy him a merciful, and gracious, and abundant in goodnesse and truth: and we enjoy Jesus Christ in a way of union with his person (being bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, as the Apostle speaks, Ephes. 5. 30.) and in a way of communion in his death, and life, and victories, and purchases: and we enjoy the very Spirit of Christ, as to all his graces, and comforts, and assurances.
- 1Our enjoyments are higher.