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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
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4. Moreover it is said of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that they are in the kingdom of Heaven, Matth. 8. 11. And of all the Elders with Abraham, that they did desire a better Country, that is an heavenly, Heb. 11. 16. And this also proves that neither he, or they were under a Covenant of works (which never brought any to Heaven) but under a Covenant of Grace; for by grace ye are saved, Ephes. 2. 5.
5. Let us go forward from Abraham to Moses, and there let us consider whether the Church were under a Covenant of works, or of grace. That 1God set up a Covenant in Moses time, the Scripture doth clearly teach us, Exod. 19. 5. If ye will obey my voice, and keep my Covenant, Then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. verse 6. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of Priests, and an holy nation. Exod. 34. 27. After the tenor of these words, I have made a Covenant with thee, and with Israel, Deut. 4. 13. He declared unto you his Covenant which he commanded you to perform, even ten Commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone?
5. Let us go forward from Abraham to Moses, and there let us consider whether the Church were under a Covenant of works, or of grace. That 1God set up a Covenant in Moses time, the Scripture doth clearly teach us,