A59035:1823
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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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.
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 Mediatour, unto whom faith brings and unites the soule; 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 joyns the sinner.
- 1Our union with God is possible.
Object. But it may be objected, 'tis true that faith is the condition of the Covenant And that faith is that condition, it is therefore hopeful for sinners. But yet this faith is as impossible to the sinner, as the condition of perfect obedience; for 1the sinner is no more able to make his heart to believe on Christ, than he is perfectly to obey the will of God; And then where is the comfort and hope that you speak of? In the notion it is true, that faith is a condition which advantageth a sinner: But in practice it is such a condition unto which it is impossible for any sinner by his own strength to attain.
- 1But this faith is as impossible to the sinner as perfect righteousness.