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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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But some may now reply, We know all this, that Christ is a Priest, and a Mediator of Redemption and of Intercession; that he offered up himself, that he died, shed his blood, was sacrificed, and that he ever lives to make Intercession. Quest. But where lies the comfort of this to them that are in Covenant with God, and have Christ to be their High Priest?
But some may now reply, We know all this, that Christ is a Priest, and a Mediatour of Redemption and of Intercession; that he offered up himself, that he died, shed his blood, was sacrificed, and that he ever lives to make Intercession. Quest. But where lies the comfort of this to them that are in Covenant with God, and have Christ to be their High Priest?
1I will show you what comfort you have by this, and I pray you mark it: There are four unspeakable comforts unto you who are Christs, from this, that he is your High Priest, who offered himself for you, and lives to make Intercession for you.
1I will shew you what comfort you have by this, and I pray you mark it: There are four unspeakable comforts unto you who are Christs, from this, that he is your High Priest, who offered himself for you, and lives to make Intercession for you.
- 1Sol. What comfort we have by this.Sol. What c•mfort we have by this.
1. All your sins were laid upon him: for in that respect he was your Priest, in