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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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I grant that the sense and apprehension of this union may (in this life) be much interrupted, and many times be wholly darkened; but the substance of the union still remains: and I grant that the substance or nature of this union may be exceedingly assaulted by Satan, yet nevertheless it continues and abides for ever: For Christ will never part with the believer, and the believer will never part with Christ: And moreover as no power in the world is sufficient to over-power the Spirit of Christ, which on Christs part makes union, so no power whatsoever shall be able to conquer faith, which on our part also makes the union. This faith of union as it is produced by no less power than that of God, so it is preserved and upheld by the same power to the end. Neither God, nor Christ, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the heart of a believer will break this union; and neither Satan, nor the world, nor sin can do it.
I grant that the sense and apprehension of this union may (in this life) be much interrupted, and many times be wholly darkned; but the substance of the union still remaines: and I grant that the substance or nature of this union may be exceedingly assaulted by Satan, yet neverthelesse it continues and abides for ever: For Christ will never part with the believer, and the believer will never part with Christ: And moreover as no power in the world is sufficient to over-power the Spirit of Christ, which on Christs part makes union, so no power whatsoever shall be able to conquer faith, which on our part also makes the union. This faith of union as it is produced by no lesse power than that of God, so it is preserved and upheld by the same power to the end. Neither God, nor Christ, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the heart of a believer will break this union; and neither Satan, nor the world, nor sin can do it.
5. If your faith be indeed the faith of union, this will appear by these influences, 1and effects which do always attend that union which faith works between us and Christ.
5. If your faith be indeed the faith of union, this will appear by these influences,