A59035:1654
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. Why Faith is the condition?
1. What Faith it is that is the condition?
Sol. There are several distinctions of Faith considered in the kinds of it, of which I shall not speak; and there are several conditions of the same Faith in respect of the particular acts issuing or following from it.
Sol. There are several distinctions of Faith considered in the kindes of it, of which I shall not speak; and there are several conditions of the same Faith in respect of the particular acts issuing or following from it.
1. That Faith which brings us into the Covenant, is a Faith which respects 1Christ, or which is conversant about Christ. No other Faith but this Faith; and of this Faith there are divers acts. 1. One is an uniting act. 2. And there is a justifying act. 3. A third is a drawing act.