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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.
Ob. And who then hath not this faith? for every sinner will give his consent to take Christ, and receive Christ, and to be his.
Sol. 1. That is not so; for many sinners refuse Christ, and reject Christ, and will not consent unto him, as you may read in Luke 14. 18. They all with one consent began to make excuse; and in Matth. 22. 5. They made light of it and went their way, &c.
2. Every consent (even) towards Christ, to have him to be ours, and for us to be his, is not the consent of faith: There is a fourfold consent towards Christ which 1is not a consent flowing from Faith, and therefore never unites to Christ.
- 1A fourfold consent which is not the consent of faith. A consent for the future.