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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. There had been no news of a Christ, nor thought of him else. As Christ 1is never effectually given unto any, but unto the lost; so he was never made known until the fall of man. And remember it, That as Christ was not, so he could not be revealed in a Covenant of works, whilst life was held by that tenure. Christ is not to be found there, where life is claimed by a righteousness of our own; he is only to be found in a Covenant of grace, which gives life unto sinners upon the righteousness of another. Rom. 3. 21. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. Ver. 22. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all that believe.
3. There had been no news of a Christ, nor thought of him else. As Christ 1is never effectually given unto any, but unto the lost; so he was never made known untill the fall of man. And remember it, That as Christ was not, so he could not be revealed in a Covenant of works, whil'st life was held by that tenure. Christ is not to be found there, where life is claimed by a righteousnesse of our own; he is only to be found in a Covenant of grace, which gives life unto sinners upon the righteousnesse of another. Rom. 3. 21. But now the righteousnesse of God without the law is manifested. Ver. 22. Even the righteousnesse of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all that believe.
- 1There had been no news of a Christ.
These are the principal reasons, why God made a new Agreement, another Covenant, a Covenant of grace with sinful man; namely, because he would not lose all man-kind, nor leave them despairing; and, Because he would exalt his own mercy, and likewise give his Son Jesus Christ, and lay upon his shoulders, the Redemption and salvation of his people.