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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. Sol. I answer, this will by no means follow. For
1. As the personal union of the Wife with the person of her Husband, doth not at all make hereto be an husband; so our personal union with Christ, doth not at all make us to be Christ, or to be Saviours, or Heads of the Church: we are indeed united unto his Person, but not placed into his Office: And not so as to be that Person.
1. As the personal union of the Wife with the person of her Husband, doth not at all make herto be an husband; so our personal union with Christ, doth not at all make us to be Christ, or to be Saviours, or Heads of the Church: we are indeed united unto his Person, but not placed into his Office: And not so as to be that Person.
2. There is a great difference twixt union of reception and participation, and a union of denomination. We are united to Christ so that thereby we have interest in, and benefit by Christ as a Mediator and Head; but not so as to be denominated Mediators: only the union of the Divine and humane Natures in Christ, denominates him to be Head and Mediator: For to make Christ to be a Mediator, it was not only necessary that there should be such a union, but also that the person in whom that union is to be found should be God; he that is a Mediator betwixt God and Man, as he must be man, so also he must be God; but though we be united to the Divine Nature in Christ, as well as to his Humane Nature, yet we are not God.
2. There is a great difference twixt union of reception and participation, and a union of denomination. We are united to Christ so that thereby we have interest in, and benefit by Christ as a Mediatour and Head; but not so as to be denominated Mediatours: only the union of the Divine and humane Natures in Christ, denominates him to be Head and Mediatour: For to make Christ to be a Mediatour, it was not only necessary that there should be such a union, but also that the person in whom that union is to be found should be God; he that is a Mediatour betwixt God and Man, as he must be man, so also he must be God; but though we be united to the Divine Nature in Christ, as well as to his Humane Nature, yet we are not God.