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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.
For the managing of this mighty and intricate Point, I shall deliver unto you three particulars.
1. That none of the people of God in any age of the world (since the fall of Adam) had a Covenant of works given unto them by God (for life) but the Covenant which God made with them (for life) was a Covenant of Grace.
2. Wherein that Covenant of Grace, under which the people of God of old lived, consents or agrees with the Covenant of Grace, under which we do now live.
3. The pre-eminency or betterness of this New Covenant, in a comparison with that old Covenant.
3. The pre-eminency or betternesse of this New Covenant, in a comparison with that old Covenant.