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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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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 ⟨p. 64⟩take hold of him. In a word, it is the Spirit by whom Christ speaks to our hearts, and by whose light we see the excellencies of Christ, and the great love of Christ, and who gives Christ (as it were) into our hands, and mightily allures and prevails upon our hearts, to give themselves unto Christ again; as Christ had never been effectually revealed unto you but by the Spirit, so you had never been effectually brought to Christ but by the Spirit; you had been Christless for ever without him.
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 joyned 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 ⟨p. 64⟩take hold of him. In a word, it is the Spirit by whom Christ speaks to our hearts, and by whose light we see the excellencies of Christ, and the great love of Christ, and who gives Christ (as it were) into our hands, and mightily allures and prevails upon our hearts, to give themselves unto Christ again; as Christ had never been effectually revealed unto you but by the Spirit, so you had never been effectually brought to Christ but by the Spirit; you had been Christlesse for ever without him.