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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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Obj. But he promiseth many things conditionally, and lets them out upon such and such conditions, and herefore not freely.
Sol. I answer.
1. Every kind of condition is not opposite to grace, as I shall shortly demonstrate unto you.
2. Whatsoever condition he makes with his people for the enjoyment of any good, he doth freely give, and work that condition in them.
3. No condition on our part hath any reason of merit in it, which is the thing opposite to grace, but it is only a means by which we come certainly to enjoy that which God is pleased graciously to give; In this respect we are said to be justified by faith, and to be saved by faith, and yet we are also justified by grace, and saved by grace; Faith you see is put in as a condition, and yet it excludes not grace; Nay, because by faith, therefore by grace; for our faith and Gods grace can well agree, though Gods grace and mans deserts can never agree.