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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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And now consider the happiness in having this Spirit, which hath wrought so effectually as to unite Christ and you, and you and Christ, that Christ is yours, and you are his; by him are you persuaded and drawn, and brought into the possession of Christ, and all the benefits by Jesus Christ.
And now consider the happiness in having this Spirit, which hath wrought so effectually as to unite Christ and you, and you and Christ, that Christ is yours, and you are his; by him are you perswaded and drawn, and brought into the possession of Christ, and all the benefits by Jesus Christ.
2. He doth conform us unto Christ; We all (saith the Apostle in 2 Cor. 3. 18.) beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image, 1from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord. As by the Spirit we do discern a most glorious nature of holiness in Christ, so by the Spirit we are changed into the same image of holiness. Hence are we said to be born again b• the Spirit, John 3. 5, 6. and to be renewed by the holy Ghost, Tit. 3. 5. And to be sanctified by him, 1 Pet. 1. 2.
2. He doth conform us unto Christ; We all (saith the Apostle in 2 Cor. 3. 18.) beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image, 1from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord. As by the Spirit we do discern a most glorious nature of holinesse in Christ, so by the Spirit we are changed into the same image of holinesse. Hence are we said to be born again b the Spirit,