A59035:1665
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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2. That faith is the means and instrument of our union with Christ: By which we 1are near to him, enjoy him, are joined unto him, possess him as ours. And this the Scripture holds forth unto us abundantly in the several expressions of faith: Our believing is sometimes styled a coming to Christ; Come unto me; and No man comes to me except, &c. A receiving of Christ, Joh. 1. 12. To as many as ⟨p. 186⟩received him, &c. A livingly Christ, and a living in Christ. Because I live, ye shall live also, Joh. 14. 19. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, Gal. 2. 20. and a joining to Christ, 1 Cor. 6. 17. A being in Christ: Ye are in Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 30. and that is by faith. A partaking of Christ, a planting of us into Christ, and Christ is said to dwell in us by faith, and so do we dwell in him by faith, and abide in him by faith. A eating and drinking of Christ, Joh. 6. 56.
2. That faith is the means and instrument of our union with Christ: By which we 1are near to him, enjoy him, are joyned unto him, possesse him as ours. And this the Scripture holds forth unto us abundantly in the several expressions of faith: Our believing is sometimes stiled a coming to Christ; Come unto me; and No man comes to me except, &c. A receiving of Christ, Joh. 1. 12. To as many as ⟨p. 186⟩