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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.
O but there is no mercy to be had!
O but not for such great sins!
O but for me! O but I can deserve nothing! and bring nothing! O but the sentence is past against me! O but I have nothing to make my peace! And thus they make the Covenant of Grace, a very Covenant of Works; no better then so; a Covenant without mercy, without grace, without a Mediator, without a tender compassionate God and Father; no City of refuge at all, nor help to the poor sinner at all: And when they are convinced of mercy in it, and possible reception into it, yet they think that God will not come off to this but upon very hard and difficult terms, usually annexing the Legal condition to the promises of the Covenant of Grace.
O but for me! O but I can deserve nothing! and bring nothing! O but the sentence is past against me! O but I have nothing to make my peace! And thus they make the Covenant of Grace, a very Covenant of Works; no better then so; a Covenant without mercy, without grace, without a Mediatour, without a tender compassionate God and Father; no City of refuge at all, nor help to the poor sinner at all: And when they are convinced of mercy in it, and possible reception into it, yet they think that God will not come off to this but upon very hard and difficult terms, usually annexing the Legal condition to the promises of the Covenant of Grace.