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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O how happy are the people who have the Lord to be their God! and who have (therefore) Christ to be their Christ: a Christ who is such a Prophet, such a Priest, and such a King.
I will not stay you any longer in this one part of your Covenant-happiness, viz. That Christ is yours; only I think it fit to sum up in a few particulars the general comforts which I have mentioned or insinuated already in the Person and Offices of Christ. Thus then; if Christ be yours, Then 1. Life is yours, Christ is your life, and he that hath the Son hath life, Col. 3. 4. 1 Joh. 5. 12.
I will not stay you any longer in this one part of your Covenant-happiness, viz. That Christ is yours; only I think it fit to summe up in a few particulars the general comforts which I have mentioned or insinuated already in the Person and Offices of Christ. Thus then; if Christ be yours, Then 1. Life is yours, Christ is your life, and he that hath the Son hath life, Col. 3. 4. 1 Joh. 5. 12.
2. Love is yours, Christ loves all his with a love of Kindness, and tenderness, and benevolence, and beneficence.
2. Love is yours, Christ loves all his with a love of Kindnesse, and tendernesse, and benevolence, and benificence.