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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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3. In their foundations. The Covenant of works (as to our part) was founded 1upon the strength of that righteous nature which God gave unto Adam, and in him unto us: so that his standing was upon his own bottom, upon the sufficiency of his own power and will, with which he was created. But the foundation of the Covenant of grace is Jesus Christ, not our own strength, but the strength of Christ who is the Rock, the Corner-stone, the foundation-stone, upon which you are built. And this is one reason why Adam fell, and lost that life promised in the Covenant of works; and why such as are brought into the Covenant of grace fall not, so as to lose that blessed life promised unto them. Adam had more inherent strength of grace than we have; he at his first creation was without all sin, yet he being left to the strength of his own will, willingly brake with God, willingly transgressed, and lost all; But we, though weaker in our selves than he, yet being brought into this Covenant of grace, though we meet with as great temptations as he, yet fall not as he did, because the foundation of our strength is greater than his. Jesus Christ holds us in his own hands, Joh. 10. 28. And we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, 1 Pet. 1. 5.
3. In their foundations. The Covenant of works (as to our part) was founded 1upon the strength of that righteous nature which God gave unto Adam, and in him unto us: so that his standing was upon his own bottome, upon the sufficiency of his own power and will, with which he was created. But the foundation of the Covenant of grace is Jesus Christ, not our own strength, but the strength of Christ who is the Rock, the Corner-stone, the foundation-stone, upon which you are built. And this is one reason why Adam fell, and lost that life promised in the Covenant of works; and why such as are brought into the Covenant of grace fall not, so as to lose that blessed life promised unto them. Adam had more inherent strength of grace than we have; he at his first creation was without all sinne, yet he being left to the strength of his own will, willingly brake with God, willingly transgressed, and lost all; But we, though weaker in our selves than he, yet being brought into this Covenant of grace, though we meet with as great temptations as he, yet fall not as he did, because the foundation of our strength is greater than his. Jesus Christ holds us in his own hands,