A59035:1864
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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Sol. I will briefly speak unto these fears, if possibly they may be removed. For as it is my desire that you may by faith be brought to Christ, so it shall be my endeavour, that every soul united unto Christ may taste of those comforts which do belong to him in Christ.
Sol. I will briefly speak unto these fears, if possibly they may be removed. For as it is my desire that you may by faith be brought to Christ, so it shall be my endeavour, that every soule united unto Christ may taste of those comforts which do belong to him in Christ.
11. Object. You fear that you are not rightly united to Christ, because you were driven to look after Christ out of fear, and sense of wrath; whereas the union by faith is free and voluntary.
- 1I was driven to look after Christ out of fear:
Answered. 1Sol. Though this be true, yet is it possible that your union with Christ may be right: They in Acts 2. 37. were indeed by Faith united to Christ, although the first work appearing in them was the sense of their sins, and of Gods wrath for that sin; and so was the Jailer in Act 16. 30. effectually brought in to Christ, although trembling of heart first seized on him; and so was Paul in Act. 9. 6. Therefore distinguish thus of this matter.