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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.
1. The Covenant of works never did afford help to recover any one sinner: As that Commander spake of the Watchman whom he found asleep (and therefore ran ⟨p. 169⟩him through with his sword) I found him dead and left him dead: That we may say of the Covenant of works, It finds us dead in sins and in trespasses, and it leaves us dead in our sins and trespasses: there is no balm for our wounds in that Covenant: But the Covenant of Grace, this doth help and restore sinners; it is the ministry of Life and Grace, and Peace: But God (saith the Apostle in Ephes. 2. 4, 5.) who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ: And 1 Cor. 6. 11. Such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. And Rom. 5. 8. God commendeth his love towards us, in that whiles we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. verse 9. Much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
1. The Covenant of works never did afford help to recover any one sinner: As that Commander spake of the Watchman whom he found asleep (and therefore ran ⟨p. 169⟩him through with his sword) I found him dead and left him dead: That we may say of the Covenant of works, It findes us dead in sins and in trespasses, and it leaves us dead in our sins and trespasses: there is no balm for our wounds in that Covenant: But the Covenant of Grace, this doth help and restore sinners; it is the ministry of Life and Grace, and Peace: But God (saith the Apostle in Ephes. 2. 4, 5.) who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickned us together with Christ: And 1 Cor. 6. 11