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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.
1 In Obscurity and Perspicuity. 2 In Burdens and Liberty, 3 In Weakness and Efficacy. 4 In Restraints and Extent. 5 In Time and Duration.
1. The New Covenant is a better Covenant than the Old, because there is a 1greater Perspicuity in the new Covenant, and a greater Obscurity in the old Covenant. Hence 'tis that the Gospel is called The revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, Rom. 16. 25, 26. He doth not mean that it was kept secret, or hid, or covered absolutely from the beginning of the world to that time; but he speaks comparatively (that i• Now Jesus Christ and the way of salvation by faith in him appears most clearly; the Sun is risen and shines without any cloud; Behold the Lamb of God; Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; He that believes shall be saved; We are saved by grace, &c. I am the way, the truth, and the life: There was not (comparatively) such clearness in expression in the Old Testament; Hence it is, that the Apostle speaking of both these Testaments in 2 Cor. 3. he tells us of a veil on the one Testament, vers. 14. and of an openness in the other Testament, vers. 18. We with open face behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, &c.
1. The New Covenant is a better Covenant than the Old, because there is a 1greater Perspicuity in the new Covenant, and a greater Obscurity in the old Covenant. Hence 'tis that the Gospel is called The revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, Rom. 16. 25, 26. He doth not mean that it was kept secret, or hid, or covered absolutely from the beginning of the world to that time; but he speaks comparatively (that i Now Jesus Christ and the way of salvation by faith in him appears most clearly; the Sun is risen and shines without any cloud; Behold the Lamb of God; Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; He that believes shall be saved; We are saved by grace, &c. I am the way, the truth, and the life: There was not (comparatively) such clearness in expression in the Old Testament; Hence it is, that the Apostle speaking of both these Testaments in