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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. The motions or workings of all things in this Covenant to the right end; 1when every thing acts to its right end, this shows a right ordering; now in this Covenant every thing works to the right end, which is to the praise and glory of Gods grace; God himself works for this, and Jesus Christ works for this, and every good thing given and received works for this, and every believer who is brought into Covenant works for this. Christ is given, and mercy is given, and grace is given, and glory is given, and because all is given, therefore all exalts the glory of Gods grace. Christ is the surety, and Christ is sent, and Christ dyed, and Christ made satisfaction, and Christ made peace, and Christ purchased all for the sinner, and this also exalts the grace of God towards sinners; the sinner is called by grace, and made a believer, and as a believer he receives all by grace, and he acts in the strength of grace, and is led on and preserved by grace, and what he is, he is by grace, and what he works, he works by grace, and what he hopes for, he hopes for by grace, and that which he rests on is grace, and what he magnifies and sets up, is not himself, nor any thing of his own, but only the grace of God.
3. The motions or workings of all things in this Covenant to the right end; 1when every thing acts to its right end, this shews a right ordering; now in this Covenant every thing works to the right end, which is to the praise and glory of Gods grace; God himself works for this, and Jesus Christ works for this, and every good thing given and received works for this, and every believer who is brought into Covenant works for this. Christ is given, and mercy is given, and grace is given, and glory is given, and because all is given, therefore all exalts the glory of Gods grace. Christ is the surety, and Christ is sent, and Christ dyed, and Christ made satisfaction, and Christ made peace, and Christ purchased all for the sinner, and this also exalts the grace of God towards sinners; the sinner is called by grace, and made a believer, and as a believer he receives all by grace, and he acts in the strength of grace, and is led on and preserved by grace, and what he is, he is by grace, and what he works, he works by grace, and what he hopes for, he hopes for by grace, and that which he rests on is grace, and what he magnifies and sets up, is not himself, nor any thing of his own, but only the grace of God.