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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.
There is a twofold glorying, one in the Testimony of conscience; this you may have who are under the Covenant of grace, 2 Cor. 1. 12. Another is 1in the confidence of our own works. This the Covenant of grace doth utterly exclude. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; Gal. 6. 14. All is of grace; by the Covenant of grace, all is given, and freely given. Christ is given, and grace is given, and mercy is given, and life is given, and salvation is given; and therefore all boasting and glorying in our selves, is excluded by the Covenant of grace.
There is a twofold glorying, one in the Testimony of conscience; this you may have who are under the Covenant of grace, 2 Cor. 1. 12. Another is 1in the confidence of our own works. This the Covenant of grace doth utterly exclude. God forbid that I should glory, save in the crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ; Gal. 6. 14. All is of grace; by the Covenant of grace, all is given, and freely given. Christ is given, and grace is given, and mercy is given, and life is given, and salvation is given; and therefore all boasting and glorying in our selves, is excluded by the Covenant of grace.
- 1A twofold glorying.
8. They differ thus; The Covenant of works breeds terrors and fear, and 1despair; If a man expect life by it, his heart must sink within him, considering how short he is of that righteousness therein required for life, as also that abundance of unrighteousness in himself, exposing him to wrath, from a just God.