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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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2. Use. See and admire the infinite goodness of God in making this Covenant 1of grace, not insisting on the other Covenant of works, not holding us unto it; to take us as it were out of the hand of justice, and to put us into the hand of mercy; not to sue the old bond, but to make a new treaty, that so he might pardon our former transgressions; What infinite goodness was this! Oh! this ⟨p. 13⟩was exceeding pity, and exceeding kindness, and exceeding goodness, to take off the yoke of bondage, and to bring us into the bond of a new Covenant; to set up a Mediator, to make another Covenant where we might yet find life, mercy, and peace; not to deal with us in justice, but in mercy; not according to the desert of our doings, but according to the riches of his grace in Christ.
2. Ʋse. See and admire the infinite goodnesse of God in making this Covenant 1of grace, not insisting on the other Covenant of works, not holding us unto it; to take us as it were out of the hand of justice, and to put us into the hand of mercy; not to sue the old bond, but to make a new treaty, that so he might pardon our former transgressions; What infinite goodnesse was this! Oh! this ⟨p. 13⟩was exceeding pity, and exceeding kindnesse, and exceeding goodnesse, to take off the yoke of bondage, and to bring us into the bond of a new Covenant; to set up a Mediatour, to make another Covenant where we might yet find life, mercy, and peace; not to deal with us in justice, but in mercy; not according to the desert of our doings, but according to the riches of his grace in Christ.
- 1Admire the goodness of God in making this Covenant of grace.