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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.
2. They are surer; he enjoyed God, so as yet he lost his God: he enjoyed righteousness, 1so as yet he lost his righteousness; and dominion, so as he lost that dominion; and had it not been for Christ (who was immediately promised after the fall) he had never found his God again, nor a righteousness again, nor any right of dominion again: but in the Covenant of grace all is sure, and stable, and permanent: God is our God for ever, and we continue his people for ever: Christ is our Head, and we are his Members for ever: we enjoy the Spirit, and he abides in us for ever. The Covenant of grace is a better Covenant then that of works, 2as to the way and cause of Remuneration.
2. They are surer; he enjoyed God, so as yet he lost his God: he enjoyed righteousness, 1so as yet he lost his righteousness; and dominion, so as he lost that dominion; and had it not been for Christ (who was immediately promised after the fall) he had never found his God again, nor a righteousnesse again, nor any right of dominion again: but in the Covenant of grace all is sure, and stable, and permanent: God is our God for ever, and we continue his people for ever: Christ is our Head, and we are his Members for ever: we enjoy the Spirit, and he abides in us for ever. The Covenant of grace is a better Covenant then that of works, 2as to the way and cause of Remuneration.
- 1Surer.
- 2It is better in the way and cause of Remuneration.
In a Covenant of works you must earn your wages before you must be paid your wages: your own doing is the price of your receiving, and your reward is as your work is; nothing is there expected as a bounty, and gift, but all runs there as debt and wages: Adam could never pray under this Covenant, Lord receive me graciously, do me good freely for thy mercies sake: But it is not thus in the Covenant of grace, where he that deserves nothing, may yet receive all: and the unworthy sinner doth yet attain to the most excellent mercies (upon the sole account of the riches of Gods grace in Christ) In the Covenant of grace God doth not reward us according to our ill deeds, nor doth he reward us for our good deeds. But he freely pardons the ill works of his people, and doth them all good, not for their goodness, but for his own goodness-sake.