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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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6. The union 'twixt us and Christ which is made by faith, it is a satisfying 1union: When a poor soul comes by faith to be one with Christ, so that it can say, Christ is mine, and I am Christs, now it is satisfied, it hath enough, it is replenished: As this union in the kind of it is most excellent, so in the sense of it, it is most sweet: Faith uniting us to Christ finds all suitable good in Christ, and all happiness, life, love, mercy, grace, joy, peace, salvation in him.
6. The union 'twixt us and Christ which is made by faith, it is a satisfying 1union: When a poor soule comes by faith to be one with Christ, so that it can say, Christ is mine, and I am Christs, now it is satisfied, it hath enough, it is replenished: As this union in the kind of it is most excellent, so in the sense of it, it is most sweet: Faith uniting us to Christ findes all suitabe good in Christ, and all happinesse, life, love, mercy, grace, joy, peace, salvation in him.
- 1A satisfying union.
7. This union 'twixt us and Christ by faith, it is a firm and inseparable union: 1An union that can never be broken asunder: and herein it goes beyond all other unions which are used to illustrate this union; every one of them is soluble, it may be broken off; the Head and the body may be severed; the Foundation and the House may be separated: The Branches may be cut off •rom the Vine: The Husband may be taken away from the Wife, and the Wife from the Husband; Yea the soul and body may be disunited by death: But the union 'twixt us and Christ remains for ever. There is not only a continuation of it all our life, but also in death itself; your very bodies sleeping in the the dust are (even then) in union with Christ.