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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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2. If your faith be this Faith of union, Then it hath raised in your hearts 1exceeding desires to enjoy Christ: I must have this Christ, I cannot live without this Christ: O Lord give me Christ, I have nothing if I have not Christ. There is nothing in heaven or earth that I desire in comparison of Christ. I desire to be found in him, saith Paul: He is the desire of all Nations, Hag. 2 7. You never had such desires towards Christ, until faith was wrought in you; such high desires, such longings, such hungrings, such thirstings; nor such busy and stirring desires; saw you him whom my soul loveth! and I sought him whom my soul loveth, and I will seek him whom my soul loveth: Nor such unsatisfied desires. Nothing satisfies you, or puts an end to your desires, but Christ desired by you.
2. If your faith be this Faith of union, Then it hath raised in your hearts 1exceeding desires to enjoy Christ: I must have this Christ, I cannot live without this Christ: O Lord give me Christ, I have nothing if I have not Christ. There is nothing in heaven or earth that I desire in comparison of Christ. I desire to be found in him, saith Paul: He is the desire of all Nations, Hag. 2 7. You never had such desires towards Christ, untill faith was wrought in you; such high desires, such longings, such hungrings, such thirstings; nor such busie and stirring desires; saw you him whom my soule loveth! and I sought him whom my soule loveth, and I will seek him whom my soule loveth: Nor such unsatisfied desires. Nothing satisfies you, or puts an end to your desires, but Christ desired by you.
- 1Exceeding desires to enjoy Christ.