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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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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, Matth. 20 28. and Antilutron, 1 Tim. 2. 6. the words do signify a valuable price laid down for another's ransom: the blood of Christ (the Son of God) was a valuable price, a sufficient price; it was as much as would serve the turn to take off all enmities, and to take away sin, and to satisfy Divine justice, and indeed so it did: and therefore you read that in his blood we have redemption, even the forgiveness of our sins, Ephes. 1. 7. and his death was such a full compensation to Divine Justice, that the Apostle makes a challenge to all, Rom. 8. 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? and ver. 3•. Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died; as if he had said, Christ hath satisfied and discharged all.
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 Righteousnesse,