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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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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. Ephes. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Jesus Christ (if I may so express it) is the out-let of all blessings, and he is the in-let to all our blessings; Look on our blessings as descending from God to us, Jesus Christ is (as it were) the out-let of them all; they are let out unto us by Christ; God himself becomes our God in Christ, and he loves us in Christ, and chooseth us in Christ, and is merciful and gracious unto us in Christ, and showeth the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus. And look on our blessings as desired from God by us, we are let or brought into the enjoyment of them by Christ; We lost all by the first Adam, and we come to enjoy all again by Christ; Jesus Christ is (as it were) the root upon which all our mercies and comforts, and hopes do live again and grow.
4. J•sus Christ h•mself, 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, righteousnesse, holinesse, as long as Christ is Christ, you shall have possession of them. Ephes. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Jesus Christ (if I may so expresse it) is the out-let of all blessings, and he is the in-let to all our blessings; Look on our blessings as descending from God to us, Jesus Christ is (as it were) the out-let of them all; they are let out unto us by Christ; God himself becomes our God in Christ, and he loves us in Christ, and chooseth us in Christ, and is merciful and gracious unto us in Christ, and sheweth the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus. And look on our blessings as desired from God by us, we are let or brought into the enjoyment of them by Christ; We lost all by the first Adam, and we come to enjoy all again by Christ; Jesus Christ is (as it were) the root upon which all our mercies and comforts, and hopes do live again and grow.