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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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Objection. It may be objected, that the Law given at Mount Sinai, was a Covenant of works, and yet that was delivered by the hand of a Mediator, Gal. 3. 19.
Objection. It may be objected, that the Law given at Mount Sinai, was a Covenant of works, and yet that was delivered by the hand of a Mediatour, Gal. 3. 19.
Sol. I shall say no more to this at present, but that the Law given on Mount Sinai, though materially it respected works, yet formally and intentionally, it was not then given and established as a Covenant of works, by which we should be justified and live; this I shall afterwards make evident, and therefore shall say no more unto it at the present.
5. The Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace, do differ in the condition 1of life promised in both. Life is promised in both Covenants, but upon different conditions. Do this and live, saith the Covenant of works; Believe on Jesus Christ and live, saith the Covenant of grace. The condition of the one, consists in giving; The condition of the other, consists in receiving; The condition of the one, is to give in a perfect righteousness of our own unto God; and the condition of the other is, by faith to receive a perfect righteousness from Christ. In the Covenant of nature or of works, there is forum justitiae, where the sentence of absolution passeth if we be found righteous; and the sentence of condemnation, if we be found unrighteous; the question is not then about faith, but love; not whether you believed, but whether you obeyed. But in the Covenant of grace, there is forum misericordiae; and the sentence of absolution, passeth not upon our doing, but upon our believing; and the sentence of condemnation passeth upon all unbelievers.