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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. The Covenant of Grace hath better admissions (I speak in respect of us) than 1the Covenant of Works. The Covenant of works would not admit any person unless he were righteous and inherently righteous, and perfectly righteous: (The Covenant of works was never made with the sinner, but with the righteous) it condemns and casts out the sinner, but never doth accept of him or let him in. But the Covenant of grace doth admit sinners: if any sinner be rightly sensible of his sins, and of h•s wants, and imperfections, God calls out unto him, Hearken 2unto me and your souls shall live: And he that hath no money, come buy and eat, Isa. 55. 1, 3.
3. The Covenant of Grace hath better admissions (I speak in respect of us) thn 1the Covenant of Works. The Covenant of works would not admit any person unlesse he were righteous and inherently righteous, and perfectly righeous: (The Covenant of works was never made with the sinner, but with the righteous) it condemns and casts out the sinner, but never doth accept of him or let him in. But the Covenant of grace doth admit sinners: if any sinner be rightly sensible of his sins, and of h•s wants, and imperfections, God calls out unto him, Hearken 2unto me and your souls shall live: And he that hath no mony, come buy and eat, Isa. 55. 1, 3.
- 1It hath better admissions.
- 2It hath more favourable proceedings with the parties brought into Covenant