A59035:1821
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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2. A want of personal and perfect righteousness doth not exclude us; for faith is not to look at our own righteousness, but at the righteousness of Christ.1
2. A want of personal and perfect righteousness doth not exclude us; for faith is not to look at our own righteous•ess, but at the righteousnesse of Christ.1
- 1Nor want of personal and perfect righteousness. Nor self unrighteousness.Nor want of personal and perfect righteousness. Nor self unrighteousnesse.
3. Our self-unworthiness is no prejudice; Faith looks for love, and mercy, and glory through Christ for the sinner who is (in himself) unworthy of love, and mercy, and glory.
3. Our self-unworthinesse is no prejudice; Faith looks for love, and mercy, and glory through Christ for the sinner who is (in himself) unworthy of love, and mercy, and glory.
4. Our union with God is possible; for though an immediate union there cannot 1be between God and a sinner, yet a mediate union there may be, viz. A union by Christ the Mediator, unto whom faith brings and unites the soul; so that there is yet hope for the sinner to be brought into Covenant with God, though not upon his own account, yet upon the account of Christ, unto whom faith joins the sinner.