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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. 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.
2. They are surer; he enjoyed God, so as yet he lost his God: he enjoyed righteousness, 1so as yet he lost his righteousness; and dominion, so as he lost that dominion; and had it not been for Christ (who was immediately promised after the fall) he had never found his God again, nor a righteousness again, nor any right of dominion again: but in the Covenant of grace all is sure, and stable, and permanent: God is our God for ever, and we continue his people for ever: Christ is our Head, and we are his Members for ever: we enjoy the Spirit, and he abides in us for ever. The Covenant of grace is a better Covenant then that of works,