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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.
1. All man-kind had been eternally lost: Sinful man could never have been recovered, never have been restored to life, but by a Covenant of grace; nothing but grace can recover the lost sinner. Rom. 3. 19. Every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. Ver. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the Law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.
1. All man-kind had been eternally lost: Sinful man could never have been recovered, never have been restored to life, but by a Covenant of grace; nothing but grace can recover the lost sinner. Rom. 3. 19. Every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. Ver. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the Law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the Law is the knowledge of sinne.
2. The Lord had lost all the glory of his mercy, if he had left us to the sentence 1of the first Covenant. Indeed there his justice, and wrath, and severity had been exceedingly magnified, but his mercy had not risen and appeared at all unto us, had not God made this new Covenant with us, being become sinners, and so fit objects of his mercy.
- 1God had lost all the glory of his mercy.
Now the intent of God was to exalt his mercy, and that man should know the greatness and exceeding riches of it; and therefore God was pleased to make a new treaty, this Covenant of grace.