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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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2. There is a conjunctive union, as in the love of the Trinity, so in the will and 1consent, and purpose of the Trinity in the matters of your salvation. There was one mutual will between them from eternity, and there is one and the same mutual will between them unto eternity: what the Father did will, the Son did will, and the same did the Holy Ghost will: and what the Father did propose for your salvation for the matter and manner, unto all of that did the Son and holy Ghost consent and agree: and what the Father did intend and purpose with respect unto the salvation of the Elect, that same did the Son and the holy Ghost intend and purpose also.
2. There is a conjunctive union, as in the love of the Trinity, so in the will and 1consent, and purpose of the Trinity in the matters of your salvation. There was one mutual will between them from eternity, and there is one and the same mutual will between them unto eternity: what the Father did will, the Son did will, and the same did the Holy Ghost will: and what the Father did propose for your salvation for the matter and manner, unto all of that did the Sonne and holy Ghost consent and agree: and what the Father did intend and purpose with respect unto the salvation of the Elect, that same did the Son and the holy Ghost intend and purpose also.
- 1There is a conjunctive union in the will and purpose of the Trinity in the matters of our salvation.
As the will of the Father was not, nor could be hid from the other persons, (every one of them being one and the same God) so there was a mutual will and liking, and determination in every one of them, as to all the matter appertaining unto our salvation.