A59035:1628
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.
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
- 1Distinguish of the word condition. No such condition as to work any one grace in our own hearts.
1. For such an Act which we may, or may not perform, according to the power and pleasure of our own free will, without the preventing, or determining grace of God: And truly in this sense, I know no godly Christian, who doth, or dare to thrust in a condition to the Covenant of Grace, as if there were something to be done by us (that is) by the sole power of our free wills, upon the drawing out of which, a Covenant is made up, and accomplished twixt God and us.
1. For such an Act which we may, or may not perform, according to the power and pleasure of our own free will, without the preventing, or determining grace of God: And truely in this sense, I know no godly Christian, who doth, or dare to thrust in a condition to the Covenant of Grace, as if there were something to be done by us (that is) by the sole power of our free wills, upon the drawing out of which, a Covenant is made up, and accomplished twixt God and us.