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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Consider the time when it was made and set forth; why immediately upon 1the fall; then when man-kind had sinned and transgressed the first Covenant; then when God might have glorified his justice upon all sinners, yet then was the time that he promised this Covenant; The seed of the woman shall break, ⟨p. 124⟩the Serpents head, Gen. 3. 15. Surely this must needs be gracious, then to set up a Throne of grace, when sinful man was to receive his sentence at the Bar of Justice.
1. Consider the time when it was made and set forth; why immediately upon 1the fall; then when man-kinde had sinned and transgressed the first Covenant; then when God might have glorified his justice upon all sinners, yet then was the time that he promised this Covenant; The seed of the woman shall break, ⟨p. 124⟩the Serpents head, Gen. 3. 15. Surely this must needs be gracious, then to set up a Throne of grace, when sinful man was to receive his sentence at the Bar of Justice.
- 1The time when it was made.
2. Consider the persons with whom this Covenant is made; It was made not 1with fallen Angels, but with men; why not with them, as well as with us? no answer can be given but this of grace; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; Nay, and why with fallen men at all? no answer can be given for this neither, but only the grace of God, and his own good pleasure; so it pleased him, and so it seemed good unto him.