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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.
1. Equivalently; there is as much in Christ, as answers all other enjoyments 1(Ipse unus erit tibi omnia, quia in ipso uno bono bona sunt omnia) the wisdom of Christ doth more than answer all other wisdom; and the knowledge of Christ doth more than answer all other knowledge; and the love of Christ doth more than answer all other love; and the unsearchable riches of Christ doth more than answer all other riches; and the delights in Christ do more than answer all other pleasures.
1. Equivalently; there is as much in Christ, as answers all other enjoyments 1(Ipse unus erit tibi omnia, quia in ipso uno bono bona sunt omnia) the wisdome of Christ doth more than answer all other wisdome; and the knowledge of Christ doth more than answer all other knowledge; and the love of Christ doth more than answer all other love; and the unsearchable riches of Christ doth more than answer all other riches; and the delights in Christ do more than answer all other pleasures.
- 1All is enjoyed by the enjoyment of Christ, Equivalently.All is enjoyed by the en•oyment of Christ, Equivalently.
2. Really; if you enjoy Christ himself, you do actually enjoy all the glorious benefits by Christ, with the enjoyments of himself. If the field be yours, the 1treasure in the field is yours indeed; in some civil enjoyments, there is an exceptio juris; sometimes such a Manor you shall enjoy, but such or such particulars are excepted and reserved; But it is not thus in your spiritual enjoyments, (in the enjoyment of Christ) there is no exception, no clause, no distinction; but if Christ be yours, all of Christ is yours; his love is yours, his righteousness is yours, his wisdom, his holiness, his Redemption, all is yours.