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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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3. The Spirit is yours in respect of his works or operations: And truly, this 1consideration makes out an exceeding happiness unto the people of God, in as much as the participation of all their happiness depends upon the workings of the Spirit of God in whom they are interested by this Covenant of grace.
3. The Spirit is yours in respect of his works or operations: And truly, this 1consideration makes out an exceeding happinesse unto the people of God, in as much as the participation of all their happiness depends upon the workings of the Spirit of God in whom they are interested by this Covenant of grace.
- 1The Spirit is theirs in respect of his works and operations.The Spirit is theirs in respect of his works and operatiōs.
There are five choice works which the Spirit doth for all the people of God, 1who have God to be their God.
- 1Five choice works which the Spirit doth for all Gods people He doth unite Christ and them.
1. He doth unite Christ and them; Although the benefits by Christ are unexpressibly precious, yet the fruition of them is impossible without a precedent union with Christ (forasmuch as union is a necessary foundation for Communion) you must be in Christ, and being his, himself and all his benefits become yours.