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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.
Is the Covenant of Grace the best Covenant? (better then any other Covenant which God made with man?) Then how injurious are many broken-hearted ⟨p. 170⟩sinners, both unto themselves and unto God! who lay the Covenant of grace so low, and impose such opinions upon it, as if there were no difference twixt a Covenant of grace and a Covenant of works. Surely it is either temptation which lies upon them, or ignorance, or unbelief, that they thus stand off, and fear, and dispute, and except, and question, and many times conclude against all encouragements to be taken into this Covenant, and there to find mercy, and rest for their souls: truly they do many times turn the Covenant of Grace into a very Covenant of Works.
Is the Covenant of Grace the best Covenant? (better then any other Covenant which God made with man?) Then how injurious are many broken-hearted ⟨p. 170⟩sinners, both unto themselves and unto God! who lay the Covenant of grace so low, and impose such opinions upon it, as if there were no difference twixt a Covenant of grace and a Covenant of works. Surely it is either temptation which lies upon them, or ignorance, or unbelief, that they thus stand off, and fear, and dispute, and except, and question, and many times conclude against all encouragements to be taken into this Covenant, and there to finde mercy, and rest for their soules: truely they do many times turn the Covenant of Grace into a very Covenant of Works.
O but there is no mercy to be had!
O but not for such great sins!