A59035:1769
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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All these things are most certainly imparted unto every believer upon his union with Christ Jesus; Christ communicates unto him his own Spirit, his own Holiness, his own Righteousness, &c. And hence it is apparent, that they never were united by faith unto Christ, in whom nothing of communion with Christ can be found, Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, &c.
All these things are most certainly imparted unto every believer upon his union with Christ Jesus; Christ communicates unto him his own Spirit, his own Holinesse, his own Righteousnesse, &c. And hence it is apparent, that they never were united by faith unto Christ, in whom nothing of communion with Christ can be found, Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, &c.
2. Upon this union with Christ there is yet another part of communion in respect of us, and there are two things especially which we do impart to Christ; one 1is love, the other is subjection: for by •aith we are united to Christ, as the Wife to the Husband, which is an union of love; and also to Christ as members of the body to the head, which takes in an union of subjection.
- 1We impart to Christ