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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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4. The Covenant of works was made without a Mediator. There was no 1days-man betwixt God and man, none to stand between them; There was none, and needed none, because there was no difference then betwixt God and man; Man was then righteous, perfectly righteous; A Mediator is a third person betwixt two different parties, to make up the breach which ariseth betwixt them; but when the Covenant of works was made betwixt God and man, all was righteousness; and therefore all was peace; there was no use of a Mediator to bring them into peace, and set them at one, who were hitherto in perfect love and union. But in the Covenant of grace there is a Mediator; ⟨p. 10⟩2Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, Heb. 12. 24. Man being fallen, there is now a necessity of a Mediator to satisfy Gods Justice, to destroy enmity, to make peace, to bring us near to God again, and to gain us confidence and acceptance with God. The Covenant of grace, could not have been drawn up without a Mediator; God would never have treated with sinners but by a Mediator, who should satisfy him for the wrong and injury done unto him, and who should set mercy (as it were) at liberty, to shower and fall down on sinful man, and who should undertake to see all Articles performed.
4. The Covenant of works was made without a Mediatour. There was no 1dayes-man betwixt God and man, none to stand between them; There was none, and needed none, because there was no difference then betwixt God and man; Man was then righteous, perfectly righteous; A Mediatour is a third person betwixt two different parties, to make up the breach which ariseth betwixt them; but when the Covenant of works was made betwixt God and man, all was righteousnesse; and therefore all was peace; there was no use of a Mediatour to bring them into peace, and set them at one, who were hitherto in perfect love and union. But in the Covenant of grace there is a Mediatour; ⟨p. 10⟩