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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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9. There are many other differences between them; as the impossibility of 1life by the one, as the case now stands; and the certainty of life by the other; and the diversity of life promised in the one, from that in the other; and a difference in respect of the seals for the one, and for the other; And a difference in respect of extent. The Covenant of works was with all men, but this with believers only. And a difference in respect of Appeals; though you may appeal from the Covenant of works to the Covenant of grace, yet there is no appeal from the Covenant of grace, &c. But I shall not stay any longer upon this first particular, only by the way make some few Uses from the consideration of both these Covenants.
- 1Other differences summed up.
1. Use. In what a miserable condition are all unbelievers, and impenitent persons, who are strangers and foreigners to the Covenant of grace, enemies to Christ, and therefore utterly disinterested in the Covenant of grace. Surely, 1mercy is not to be found in any other Covenant but in this. In the Covenant of works you are condemned and accursed, by reason of transgression; your lives are forfeited, you are under the curse (cursed is every one, &c.) Neither doth the Covenant of works mitigate or reverse, or alter the sentence: It admits of no mercy at all. Mercy which is the only remedy against it, is found only in the Covenant of grace. There is the Throne of grace set up, and there is the Mercy-seat to be found. But unbelievers, because they refuse Christ; and impenitent sinners because they choose their sins, exclude themselves from Christ and from this Covenant of grace; and therefore they shall live and die accursed and condemned men.
1. Use. In what a miserable condition are all unbelievers, and impenitent persons, who are strangers and forreiners to the Covenant of grace, enemies to Christ, and therefore utterly disinterested in the Covenant of grace. Surely,