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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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1. It is very improbable that God would make a new Covenant with us, and state the stability and everlastingness of it upon the will of us sinners; for hereby,
1. It is very improbable that God would make a new Covenant with us, and state the stability and everlastingnesse of it upon the will of us sinners; for hereby,
1. There should be no difference (as to the ground of safety and certainty) 1'twixt this Covenant of grace and that of works; for if Adam had improved the power and liberty of his will, he had continued, and had enjoyed the life which God promised unto him. Now wherein doth the grace of this Covenant exceed the other of Works, if eternal life be left unto the pleasure of our will, as formerly it was to Adams?
- 1Is very improbable.
2. Nay it should be harder, and more unsafe for us to be in the Covenant of grace, than it was for Adam to be in the Covenant of works; because in that condition Adams will was created with a perfect righteousness, and conformity, and sufficiency to have continued in that Covenant; but we are fallen with him, and have lost that perfectly inherent righteousness; and the grace which comes in the room of it, is very weak and imperfect; so that as to the perpetuating of the Covenant, we should be extremely disadvantaged in comparison of our imperfect holiness, with his perfect righteousness; and thus we by grace should have only a less power and strength to continue in Covenant with God, than Adam had.