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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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Answered. Answ. I answer, it is not. For it is one thing for the Divine and humane Nature to be united to the person of Christ; and it is another thing for us to be united unto those natures in Christ: Again, the Hypostatical union, is in the union of those Natures in the second person of the Trinity, who is the Son of God by eternal generation. But our union is not so; we are not such sons of God by eternal generation as Christ was, but by grace, which he was not. Moreover our union with those natures, is by faith on our part; but the Hypostatical union of those two Natures in Christ, is not an union by faith, but by assumption of the humane Nature into an unity with the Divine Nature in his Person.
12. Quest. Whether, if we be united thus to the person of Christ in both his Natures, we do not hereupon become so many Mediators, and Saviours, and Heads of the Church, because in respect of the union of both these Natures Jesus Christ is Head and Mediator.
12. Quest. Whether, if we be united thus to the person of Christ in both his Natures, we do not hereupon become so many Mediatours, and Saviours, and Heads of the Church, because in respect of the union of both these Natures Jesus Christ is Head and Mediatour.
- 1Whether upon this union we do not become so many Mediators.
Answered. Sol. I answer, this will by no means follow. For