A59035:1784
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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2. That no Ordinances and means whatsoever can (of themselves) be the ⟨p. 202⟩author of this uniting faith. If the Apostles of Christ did live amongst you, and 1did preach every day of the week unto you the Gospel of Christ; neither they, nor yet the Gospel which they preached could (by their own power) make any one sinner to believe on Christ, Matth. 11. 17. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 'Tis true, that these are means and instruments of faith (as you shall presently hear) but the Axe (which is an instrument) cuts not of itself; and the •ord (which is a means) draws not of itself. Neither the convincing Paul, nor eloquent Apollos, nor the affectionate John can prevail.
2. That no Ordinances and meanes whatsoevever can (of themselves) be the ⟨p. 202⟩author of this uniting faith. If the Apostles of Christ did live amongst you, and 1did preach every day of the week unto you the Gospel of Christ; neither they, nor yet the Gospel which they preached could (by their own power) make any one sinner to believe on Christ, Matth. 11. 17. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 'Tis true, that these are meanes and instruments of faith (as you shall presently hear) but the Axe (which is an instrument) cuts not of itself; and the •ord (which is a means) draws not of itself. Neither the convincing Paul, nor eloquent Apollos, nor the affectionate John can prevaile.
- 1No means and Ordinances of themselves can be the Author of it.