A59035:1862
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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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.
1. I was driven to look after Christ out of fear, and out of the sense of wrath. 2. Union with Christ supposeth separation from all that is contrary unto Christ: Alas I find the contrary, a body of sin still present with me! 3. Union with Christ depends upon some mighty and powerful workings of the Spirit, which I never observed, nor discerned in my soul. 4. Union with Christ certainly includes the presence of the Spirit, and the communion of the Spirit; whether I have that, I know not. 5. I still live under weaknesses, and wants; but union with Christ would have let in more supply, &c.
1. I was driven to look after Christ out of fear, and out of the sense of wrath. 2. Union with Christ supposeth separation from all that is contrary unto Christ: Alas I finde the contrary, a body of sinne still present with me! 3. Union with Christ depends upon some mighty and powerfull workings of the Spirit, which I never observed, nor discerned in my soule. 4. Union with Christ certainly includes the presence of the Spirit, and the communion of the Spirit; whether I have that, I know not. 5. I still live under weaknesses, and wants; but union with Christ would have let in more supply, &c.