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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
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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.
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 Mannour 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 wisdome, his holiness, his Redemption, all is yours.
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4. Jesus Christ himself, his person is the greatest blessing, and choicest gift, that 1God hath or can give unto you; for all the other blessings fall into our possession and enjoyment by Christ alone; all your enjoyments are bestowed by the enjoyment of Christ himself; the loving God, the merciful God, righteousness, holiness, as long as Christ is Christ, you shall have possession of them.