A59035:1626
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.
SECT. I.
Object. I Know there is a great dispute How any condition can be allowed in a Covenant of Grace: And some are very eager against it: and think that if any condition be admitted, then presently we are Legalists, and are setting up a Covenant 1of works instead of a Covenant of Grace.
- 1How any condition can be allowed in the Covenant of Grace.
Sol. But I humbly conceive that there is no need of such heat, nor fear of such an inconveniency in this Point, if parties would but patiently hear one another, and calmly consider the matter.
Therefore first I think it necessary to distinguish of that word (condition) which may be taken in a three-fold sense.1