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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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6. The Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace do differ thus; The 1least sin undoes the sinner under the Covenant of works, but it doth not so in the Covenant of grace. The Covenant of works passeth sentence against you, upon the least obliquity; Cursed is every one that continueth not in every thing to do it; and you have no remedy against this sentence in the Covenant of works: But it is not so in the Covenant of grace. This is a Remedy, and a Sanctuary, and a City of Refuge, against the sentence passed in the Covenant of works. 2If the condemned and distressed sinner, can fly unto, and reach to the Covenant of grace, Christ will satisfy for him, and make his peace, and procure mercy for him. Nay, the Covenant of grace deals more favourably with us; It doth not cast us out for every transgression, but as a father pities his child that serves him, so doth the Lord pity them that fear him, Psal. 103. 13. Unless we utterly violate the Covenant of grace, we may yet find grace and mercy. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins, 1 John 2. 1, 2.
6. The Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace do differ thus; The 1least sin undoes the sinner under the Covenant of works, but it doth not so in the Covenant of grace. The Covenant of works passeth sentence against you, upon the least obliquity; Cursed is every one that continueth not in every thing to do it; and you have no remedy against this sentence in the Covenant of works: But it is not so in the Covenant of grace. This is a Remedy, and a Sanctuary, and a City of Refuge, against the sentence passed in the Covenant of works. 2If the condemned and distressed sinner, can fly unto, and reach to the Covenant of grace, Christ will satisfie for him, and make his peace, and procure mercy for him. Nay, the Covenant of grace deals more favourably with us; It doth not cast us out for every transgression, but as a father pities his child that serves him, so doth the Lord pity them that feare him,