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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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3. This Covenant is gracious; and therefore it is sure, as the Apostle speaks, 1Rom. 4. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might b• by grace; to the end the promise might b• sure to all the seed; The former Covenant was not sure, because it was of works, and rested upon our own strength and performance; but this Covenant i• sure because it is of grace, and rests not on any sufficiency in us, but only on the goodness and the sufficiency of Gods grace; God in this Covenant doth promise to give us all things freely, to work all our works in us and for us; not to deal with us according to our deserts, but according to the riches of his mercy.
3. This Covenant is gracious; and therefore it is sure, as the Apostle speaks, 1Rom. 4. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might b• by grace; to the end the promise might b• sure to all the seed; The former Covenant was not sure, because it was of works, and rested upon our own strength and performance; but this Covenant i• sure because it is of grace, and rests not on any sufficiency in us, but only on the goodnesse and the sufficiency of Gods grace; God in this Covenant doth promise to give us all things freely, to work all our works in us and for us; not to deal with us according to our deserts, but according to the riches of his mercy.
- 1It is gracious.