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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.
Sol. Questionless, the Covenant of grace requires good works. This is a faithful saying (saith Paul, Tit. 3. 8.) and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which believe in God, might be careful to maintain good works; these things are good and profitable unto men. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, Matth. 5. 16. But yet there is a vast difference betwixt the good works as required in the Covenant of works, 1and as required in the Covenant of grace.
Sol. Questionlesse, the Covenant of grace requires good works. This is a faithful saying (saith Paul, Tit. 3. 8.) and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which believe in God, might be careful to maintain good works; these things are good and profitable unto men. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, Matth. 5. 16. But yet there is a vast difference betwixt the good works as required in the Covenant of works, 1and as required in the Covenant of grace.
- 1But with a difference.
They differ in their spring and fountain, and they differ in their manner of 1working; but herein especially they differ as to these Covenants; that in the one, they are a condition of life; but in the other, Testimonies and Evidences of life; in the one, they are the matter of life and justification; in the other, they are nothing at all; they are no part, no reason, they have no interest or hand at all in the justification of a sinner; Faith (therein) wholly excludes them, and fixeth only on the righteousness of Christ. Although they are always present in the justified man, yet they are never present in his justification before God.