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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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And also to affect your hearts, that you may press the more after a personal interest therein.
Thus then the Covenant of works and of grace do differ.
1. In their special end. The end which God aimed at in the Covenant of works, was, the declaration and magnifying of his justice; and his end in making 1the Covenant of grace, is the declaration and magnifying of his mercy. In the Covenant of works, it is, Do this and live; if you sin, you dye for it: Here is no place for Repentance, no place for mercy. In the Covenant of works, when Adam had sinned, there was no commission of enquiry, whether he repented or not of what he had done; the enquiry was only of the fact, What hast thou done? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt not eat? and being found guilty, death and curse are pronounced against him, Gen. 3. 11, 19. Thus it is in the Covenant of works. The soul ⟨p. 9⟩that sins shall die, […]. 18. 4. In this, God reveals his wrath from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men, Rom. 1. 18. And thus he makes his power and justice known in that Covenant. But in the Covenant of grace, his intention and purpose is to glorify his mercy, to proclaim his glory. The Lord, The Lord merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, Exod. 34. 6, 7