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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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I shall not insist on this Argument, to tell you how Christ was called and qualified for his priestly Office, nor of the differences 'twixt him and all other Priests: nor how that his Sacrifice was his humane nature, and the Altar was his Divine Nature, and himself according to both these natures was the Priest; My intention is only in few words to touch at this Office of Christ as our Mediator: and then to express unto you, the chief comforts from your interest in him, as to this his Office of Priesthood.
I shall not insist on this Argument, to tell you how Christ was called and qualified for his priestly Office, nor of the differences 'twixt him and all other Priests: nor how that his Sacrifice was his humane nature, and the Altar was his Divine Nature, and himself according to both these natures was the Priest; My intention is only in few words to touch at this Office of Christ as our Mediatour: and then to expresse unto you, the chief comforts from your interest in him, as to this his Office of Priesthood.
There are two Acts wherein his Priestly Office consisteth.1
- 1Two acts of his Priestly Office. Oblation.
1. One was the oblation of himself once for all; as a perfect Sacrifice for the expiation of sin, and reconciling us to God, Heb. 9. 14. Through the eternal Spirit, he offered himself, without spot to God, verse 26. he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself, verse 28. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many,