A59035:1860
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. The habitude 'twixt Christ as Head, and believers as his Body and Members; he is not perfect until they be perfected.
5. The habitude 'twixt Christ as Head, and believers as his Body and Members; he is not perfect untill they be perfected.
And now I pray you that are believers, be you your selves judges, whether your union with Christ puts you not into a most comfortable and blessed condition, seeing it brings you into union with God, and every Person of the Trinity, and makes you heirs of all the good in the Covenant, all which God and Jesus Christ will see actually bestowed upon you.
1Object. True, will some say; here is comfort enough; for here is all that souls can wish or enjoy. But truly the more you speak of this comfort from union with Christ, the more sad and uncomfortable is my heart! Because at least I fear that I never yet in truth attained unto this union of Faith: why so?
1Object. True, will some say; here is comfort enough; for here is all that soules can wish or enjoy. But truely the more you speak of this comfort from union with Christ, the more sad and uncomfortable is my heart! Because at least I fear that I never yet in truth attained unto this union of Faith: why so?
- 1I fear I was never united to Christ.