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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.
You read that Christ was conceived by the holy Ghost, and he was anointed by the Spirit; So is every Christian; he becomes a Christian by the Spirit, and he is anointed by the Spirit: The ointment indeed is first poured upon our head, and then upon us; but as it is the same spirit in us which is in Christ, so it is the same anointing; only it is in Christ as the head, and without measure; and as in the pattern unto which we are conformed by the Spirit. As by the unction of the Spirit, we become like Christ in nature, so also in Relation; God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba-Father, Gal. 4. 6.
You read that Christ was conceived by the holy Ghost, and he was anointed by the Spirit; So is every Christian; he becomes a Christian by the Spirit, and he is anointed by the Spirit: The oyntment indeed is first poured upon our head, and then upon us; but as it is the same spirit in us which is in Christ, so it is the same anointing; only it is in Christ as the head, and without measure; and as in the pattern unto which we are conformed by the Spirit. As by the unction of the Spirit, we become like Christ in nature, so also in Relation; God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba-Father, Gal. 4. 6.
Now judge of the blessedness of having the Spirit; He is the cause of our union, and he is the cause of our unction: he brings us into Christ, and he anoints us with the same grace wherewith Christ himself was anointed, so that we are like Christ himself; we are anointed with the same Spirit, and therefore we must needs be excellent and choice persons, and very lovely in the eyes of God.
Now judge of the blessednesse of having the Spirit; He is the cause of our union, and he is the cause of our unction: he brings us into Christ, and he anoints us with the same grace wherewith Christ himself was anointed, so that we are like Christ himself; we are anointed with the same Spirit, and therefore we must needs be excellent and choice persons, and very lovely in the eyes of God.