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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 might add, that as there is a Covenant betwixt God and Christ personally considered, so also betwixt God and Christ mystically considered; Take him as the Head of the Church, his body, the Covenant principally looks at Christ, I will be your God; this principally looks at Christ, and I will be your Father; this principally looks at Christ, and so the main promises, as those of Life, of Grace, of Justification, so they principally look at Christ. As there was a respect to the people of God in the Covenant betwixt the Father and Jesus Christ, so there was a respect to Christ in the Covenant betwixt God and his people.
I might adde, that as there is a Covenant betwixt God and Christ personally considered, so also betwixt God and Christ mystically considered; Take him as the Head of the Church, his body, the Covenant principally looks at Christ, I will be your God; this principally looks at Christ, and I will be your Father; this principally looks at Christ, and so the maine promises, as those of Life, of Grace, of Justification, so they principally look at Christ. As there was a respect to the people of God in the Covenant betwixt the Father and Jesus Christ, so there was a respect to Christ in the Covenant betwixt God and his people.
2. Nevertheless, though there be such a Covenant betwixt God the Father, 1and his Son Jesus Christ; yet there is a Covenant made betwixt God and his people.
2. Neverthelesse, though there be such a Covenant betwixt God the Father, 1and his Son Jesus Christ; yet there is a Covenant made betwixt God and his people.
- 1Yet there is a Covenant betwixt God and his people. Proved.