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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.
SECT. X.
10. A Tenth property of this Covenant is this, It is the best Covenant: Better 1than any other Covenant, Heb. 7. 22. Jesus was made a surety of a better Covenant. 8. 6. He is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was established upon better promises. There is (you know) the first Covenant (the Covenant of Works) and there is the second Covenant (the Covenant of Grace) which is divided into the Old Covenant, and into the New Covenant: Now here I shall briefly open two things unto you.
10. A Tenth property of this Covenant is this, It is the best Covenant: Better 1than any other Covenant, Heb. 7. 22. Jesus was made a surety of a better Covenant. 8. 6. He is the Mediatour of a better Covenant which was established upon better promises. There is (you know) the first Covenant (the Covenant of Works) and there is the second Covenant (the Covenant of Grace) which is divided into the Old Covenant, and into the New Covenant: Now here I shall briefly open two things unto you.
- 110. It is the best Covenant.
1. That the Covenant of grace which is the second Covenant, is a better Covenant than the Covenant of Works which was the first Covenant.