A59035:1501
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. The Covenant of Grace hath a better foundation than the Covenant of Works: The foundation of the Covenant of works was that power of will and righteousness wherewith Adam was created: he stood upon his own bottom, and was left unto his own sufficiency, like the Prodigal child, Luke 15. he had all his goods in his own hand. But the foundation of the Covenant of Grace is Jesus Christ: he is the sure foundation-stone laid in this building, Isa. 28. 16. and our salvation is laid upon one that is might, upon one who is able to keep, and to save to the utmost: Not our strength, but Christs strength; not our undertaking, but Christs undertaking; not our will, but Christs Mediatorship and Suretyship is the foundation of the Covenant of grace.
2. The Covenant of grace hath better terms; All the Articles of it are promises: nothing is there required of us, which is not promised unto us by God: yea that 1which was required in the first Covenant as a condition, is in this Covenant turned into a promise, viz. Obedience to Gods Commandments, Heb. 8. 10. I will put my Law into their minds, and write them in their hearts, And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And that which is required in this Covenant as a condition, it is likewise promised, Joh. 6. 45. They shall be all taught of God; every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
2. The Covenant of grace hath better terms; All the Articles of it are promises: nothing is there required of us, which is not promised unto us by God: yea that 1