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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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7. The Covenant of works, if we could attain unto it, would now be matter 1of glorying in our selves; If Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, Rom. 4. 2. The elder brother (who represented these work-men) how did he boast himself? These many years did I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy Commandment, &c. Luke 15. 29. I am not as other men, said that proud Pharisee; you might have challenged life by a debt, by ⟨p. 12⟩the Covenant of works; To him that worketh, is the Reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt, Rom. 4. 4. You might have earned happiness, if I may so speak, at your fingers ends, and might have demanded your wages after you had done your work; But, the Covenant of grace cuts off all boasting, and glorying 2in our selves. Where is boasting then? it is excluded; by what Law? of works; nay, but by the Law of faith, Rom. 3. 27. And Jesus Christ is made unto us of God, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption; That according as it is written, he that glorieth, might glory in the Lord, 1 Cor. 1. 30, 31. You cannot glory in your wisdom, for that you have from Christ; nor in your sanctification, for that you have from Christ, &c. you have all from Christ, therefore all your glorying must be in Christ.
7. The Covenant of works, if we could attain unto it, would now be matter 1of glorying in our selves; If Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, Rom. 4. 2. The elder brother (who represented these work-men) how did he boast himself? These many years did I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy Commandment, &c.