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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. A personal worthiness is inconsistent with a Covenant of grace; for a 1Covenant of grace is a giving Covenant, and it is a freely giving Covenant; God loves you here freely, and he here forgives you freely: I will love them freely, Hosea 14. 4. I am he that blotteth out thy sins for mine own sake, Isaiah 43. 25. This were a strange thing indeed, that God should make a Covenant of grace to relieve the sinner against the Covenant of works, and yet should make our works the foundation and reason of his grace! No, saith the Apostle, There is a remnant according to the election of grace; And if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace; but if it be of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise works is no more works. God admits not into this Covenant upon the reason and account of works, nor doth he let out the good of this Covenant upon any such account; this were not to advance his grace, but to destroy his grace.
2. A personal worthinesse is inconsistent with a Covenant of grace; for a 1Covenant of grace is a giving Covenant, and it is a freely giving Covenant; God loves you here freely, and he here forgives you freely: I will love them freely, Hosea 14. 4. I am he that blotteth out thy sinnes for mine own sake, Esay 43. 25. This were a strange thing indeed, that God should make a Covenant of grace to relieve the sinner against the Covenant of works, and yet should make our works the foundation and reason of his grace! No, saith the Apostle, There is a remnant according to the election of grace; And if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace; but if it be of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise works is no more works. God admits not into this Covenant upon the reason and account of works, nor doth he let out the good of this Covenant upon any such account; this were not to advance his grace, but to destory his grace.
- 1A personal worthiness is inconsistent with the Covenant of grace.