A59035:1877
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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The other is Gradual, when by the further influence of the Spirit of Christ, the powerful presence of sin is more and more mortified and subdued. This latter you shall attain unto by virtue of your union with Christ: But if you find the former, certainly you are united to Christ: If there be but so much grace infused into the heart to alienate it from sin, to change the bent and frame of the soul; why! this cannot be without a union with Christ; for this is a new spiritual change wrought in you by the Spirit of Christ; and the newness of our hearts depends upon that union with Christ, which is made by faith, and is the lively testimony of it: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, 2 Cor. 5, 17.
The other is Gradual, when by the further influence of the Spirit of Christ, the powerful presence of sin is more and more mortified and subdued. This latter you shall attain unto by vertue of your union with Christ: But if you finde the former, certainly you are united to Christ: If there be but so much grace infused into the heart to alienate it from sin, to change the bent and frame of the soule; why! this cannot be without a union with Christ; for this is a new spiritual change wrought in you by the Spirit of Christ; and the newnesse of our hearts depends upon that union with Christ, which is made by faith, and is the lively testimony of it: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, 2 Cor. 5, 17.
1Object. O but union with Christ depends upon some mighty and powerful workings of the Spirit upon the soul, which I never observed, nor discerned in my soul!
1Object. O but union with Christ depends upon some mighty and powerful workings of the Spirit upon the soule, which I never observed, nor discerned in my soule!