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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.
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.
1. He doth unite Christ and them; Although the benefits by Christ are unexpressibly precious, yet the fruition of them is impossible with•ut 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.
Now it is the Spirit which makes up this union; as love makes the union 'twixt Christian and Christian; and as faith makes up the union from us to Christ (for we are planted into Christ, and are espoused unto Christ, and live in Christ by faith) so the Spirit makes the union 'twixt Christ and us; there being no other way for him to be joined unto us, and to become Relatively ours, but by his own Spirit; it is the Spirit which doth let out the heart of Christ to us, and who doth bring in our hearts unto Christ; it is the Spirit by whom Christ applies himself unto us, and apprehends us, and by whom we also do apprehend and apply Christ; by his Spirit he takes hold of us, and by the same Spirit it is that we