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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. Although there was a kind of faith in Adam under the Covenant of works, 1yet that faith was not for this end and purpose, to be the condition of that Covenant. There it was a part of his righteousness, but was not stipulated as the condition of life, as that upon which his life and justification did depend. But the faith required in the Covenant of grace, comes in purposely as the condition of life, and justification for the sinner.
3. Although there was a kind of faith in Adam under the Covenant of works, 1yet that faith was not for this end and purpose, to be the condition of that Covenant. There it was a part of his righteousnesse, but was not stipulated as the condition of life, as that upon which his life and justification did depend. But the faith required in the Covenant of grace, comes in purposely as the condition of life, and justification for the sinner.
- 1Faith not required in both, for the same end.
2. Quest. Whither the Covenant of grace doth not require works, as well 1as the Covenant of nature or of works; If so, what difference is there then between them as to doing?
- 1Whether the Covenant of grace requires works. Works are required in both.
Sol. Questionless, the Covenant of grace requires good works. This is a faithful saying (saith Paul,