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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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As Judah became a surety to Jacob for Benjamin, he engaged himself to his Father, I will be surety for him, of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever, Gen. 43. 9. Thus Jesus Christ is our Priest, and therefore our Surety with his Father; Father, I will take upon me all the sins of thy people; I will be bound to answer for them, I will sacrifice my self for them, at my hands do thou require satisfaction for their sins, and a full compensation unto thy justice: I will die, I will lay down my life, I will make my soul an offering for sins, I will become a curse, I will endure thy wrath.
O what a Comfort is this, that there is a Christ to answer for that which we could not answer!
12. He discharged all your debts and bonds: There is a twofold debt which lay upon us; one was the debt of obedience unto the Law; And this Christ did pay by fulfilling all Righteousness, Matth. 3. 15. The other was the debt of punishment for our ⟨p. 59⟩transgressions, and this debt also Christ discharged by his death on the Cross, and being made a curse for us to redeem us from the curse, Gal. 3. 13. Hence it is that we are said to be bought with a price, 1 Cor. 6. 20. and that Christ is called our ransom, Lutron,