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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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4. He fits us for that salvation which Christ hath purchased for us. As the 1blood of Christ did purchase our salvation, so the Spirit of Christ doth fit us for the enjoyment thereof; He makes us meet to •e partakers of the inheritance of th• Saints in light: The Apostle speaking of this salvation, under several expressions in 2 Cor. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. he adds in the fifth verse, Now he which hath wrought us for the self-same thing, is God, who hath given unto us the earnest of his Spirit. And this fitting work of his upon us for the salvation purchased by Christ, he doth execute,
4. He fits us for that salvation which Christ hath purchased for us. As the 1blood of Christ did purchase our salvation, so the Spirit of Christ doth fit us for the enjoyment thereof; He makes us meet to •e partakers of the inheritance of th• Saints in light: The Apostle speaking of this salvation, under several expressions in 2 Cor. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. he addes in the fifth verse, Now he which hath w•ough• us for the self-same thing, is God, who hath given unto us the earnest of his Spirit. And this fitting work of his upon us for the salvation purchased by Christ, he doth execute,
- 1He fits us for that salvation which Christ hath purchased for us.
Partly by cleansing and purifying ou sinful hears, and mortifying those lusts, which otherwise would render us unfit, and uncapable of that glorious salvation.