A59035:1561
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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1. He did set up immediately after the fall a Covenant of Grace (this the Scripture clearly shows us) but a Covenant of works is inconsistent with a Covenant of Grace; and a Covenant of grace is inconsistent with a Covenant of works, They are mutually destructive one to the other. If of works, then no more of grace, saith the Apostle, Rom. 11. 6. So that you must either deny that God did set up a Covenant of grace for sinners (which the Scriptures affirm) or you must grant that a Covenant of grace is inconsistent with a Covenant of works (which the Scriptures deny) or you must confess that there is no Covenant of works (since the fall) set up by God for sinners.
1. He did set up immediately after the fall a Covenant of Grace (this the Scripture clearly shews us) but a Covenant of works is inconsistent with a Covenant of Grace; and a Covenant of grace is inconsistent with a Covenant of works, They are mutually destructive one to the other. If of works, then no more of grace, saith the Apostle, Rom. 11. 6. So that you must either deny that God did set up a Covenant of grace for sinners (which the Scriptures affirm) or you must grant that a Covenant of grace is inconsistent with a Covenant of works (which the Scriptures deny) or you must confess that there is no Covenant of works (since the fall) set up by God for sinners.
2. If God did set up a Covenant of grace for sinners, and after that a Covenant of works for sinners, Then he did set up a possibility for sinners to be saved, and an impossibility also for sinners to be saved: The reason whereof is this. There is a possibility for a sinners salvation, as to a Covenant of grace where mercy may be found; and there is an impossibility of a sinners salvation, as to a Covenant of works, where no mercy is to be found for a sinner: But for God to make salvation both possible and impossible for the same sinners, were most inglorious and absurd.