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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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3. The place mentioned in Gal. 3. 16. doth not contradict this truth, where it is said, The promises are made to Abraham, and to his seed, not seeds, as speaking of many, but seed, as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ.
This place surely will not carry it out, that there is no Covenant with us but with Christ. For,
1. How do you read in this place of Promises made to Abraham, (the promises were made to Abraham;) if there were no promises but to Christ; or how can the promises be made only to Christ, and yet to Abraham?
2. The promises were made to Abraham, and then to his seed which is Christ; if Christ here should be understood personally, the order here mentioned could not hold; for then Christ should come to claim the promises in Abraham's right, and not Abraham in his.
2. The promises were made to Abraham, and then to his seed which is Christ; if Christ here should be understood personally, the order here mentioned could not hold; for then Christ should come to claim the promises in Abrahams right, and not Abraham in his.