A59035:654
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.
What love the Father hath to Jesus Christ, such a love hath the Father unto you who are Christs; and this doth appear in four particulars. 1. When he elected Christ, he did then elect you. 2. When he did purpose to give Christ to you, he did then purpose to give you to Christ. 3. That you are of the same relation unto him with Christ; and therefore Christ is not ashamed to call you brethren. 4. That you are heirs of the same Kingdom and glory with Christ.
What love the Father hath to Jesus Christ, such a love hath the Father unto you who are Christs; and this doth appear in four particulars. 1. When he elected Christ, he did then elect you. 2. When he did purpose to give Christ to you, he did then purpose to give you to Christ. 3. That you are of the same relation unto him with Christ; and therefore Christ is not ashamed to call you brethren. 4. That you are heires of the same Kingdome and glory with Christ.
Of the Son, who loved you to the utmost height and depth, and expression of love; Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends, Joh. 15. 13. Ye are my friends, ver. 14. so Ephes. 5. 2. Christ loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God.
Of the Sonne, who loved you to the utmost heighth and depth, and expression of love; Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends, Joh. 15. 13. Ye are my friends, ver. 14. so Ephes. 5. 2. Christ loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God.