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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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9. You have this privilege, that your all is in another; Your life stands in the life of another; and your righteousness in the righteousness of another; 1and your satisfying in the satisfaction of another; and your defence in the death of another; and your title and claim in the obedience and purchase, and right of another, and your acceptance in another; your life lies in the life of Christ; and your righteousness is the righteousness of Christ, and your satisfying is the satisfaction of Christ, and your defence and answer to all indictments and accusations is the death of Christ, and your claim and title is the obedience and purchase of Christ; your power is in the power of Christ, and your acceptance is in Christ. This is a privilege indeed, that you are wholly made up in another, and by another; that you shall never be found in your own righteousness, but only in the righteousness of Christ, and shall never be tried by your own righteousness, but by the righteousness of Christ, &c.
9. You have this priviledge, that your all is in another; Your life stands in the life of another; and your righteousnesse in the righteousnesse of another; 1and your satisfying in the satisfaction of another; and your defence in the death of another; and your title and claime in the obedience and purchase, and right of another, and your acceptance in another; your life lies in the life of Christ; and your righteousnesse is the righteousnesse of Christ, and your satisfying is the satisfaction of Christ, and your defence and answer to all inditements and accusations is the death of Christ, and your claime and title is the obedience and purchase of Christ; your power is in the power of Christ, and your acceptance is in Christ. This is a priviledge indeed, that you are wholly made up in another, and by another; that you shall never be found in your own righteousnesse, but onely in the righteousnesse of Christ, and shall never be tryed by your own righteousnesse, but by the righteousnesse of Christ, &c.
- 1Your all is in another.