A92857:514
The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor…
The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor sinners. Wherein is set out, the gracious behaviour of Christ, standing at the door and knocking for entrance. The dutiful behaviour of sinners in hearing Christs voice and opening to him. And the comfortable event upon them both. / By Obadiah Sedgwick. B.D. and late minister of the Gospel in Covent-Garden.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Adoniram Byfield, 1657
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7. Which union is a spiritual relation 'twixt Christ and a believing soul, and a most intimate, close, mystical, and inseparable conjunction 'twixt them: Expressed ⟨p. 161⟩in Scripture by that of Head and Member, of Husband and Wife, of a Foundation and Living-stone built thereupon: of the Vine and Branches, &c.
7. Which union is a spiritual relation 'twixt Christ and a beleeving soul, and a most intimate, close, mystical, and inseparable conjunction 'twixt them: Expressed ⟨p. 161⟩in Scripture by that of Head and Member, of Husband and Wife, of a Foundation and Living-stone built thereupon: of the Vine and Branches, &c.
8. In this union believers are by the Spirit of Christ immediately knit to him, and by him to God, so that (in a mystical respect) they become one with him and with the Father, and partakes of all the good in and by Jesus Christ, which flows from him as the head from the members.
8. In this union beleevers are by the Spirit of Christ immediately knit to him, and by him to God, so that (in a mystical respect) they become one with him and with the Father, and partakes of all the good in and by Jesus Christ, which flowes from him as the head from the members.
Christ in respect of himself is one that possesseth all good, and upon this union a communication thereof doth ensue.