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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
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For this is a sure truth, that remission of sins, and actual damnation for sins, are incompatible, or inconsistent. Now whether this be any cause of comfort that you and your sins are parted, and that you and hell are for ever separated, I leave it to any one of you to judge: for mine own part, I do look upon four things as very great mercies. 1. That I am delivered from the power of sin. 2. That I enjoy the pardon of sin. 3. That I shall never be damned for sin. 4. That I shall be saved, notwithstanding all my sins.
For this is a sure truth, that remission of sinnes, and actual damnation for sinnes, are incompatible, or inconsistent. Now whether this be any cause of comfort that you and your sinnes are parted, and that you and hell are for ever separated, I leave it to any one of you to judge: for mine own part, I do look upon four things as very great mercies. 1. That I am delivered from the power of sinne. 2. That I enjoy the pardon of sinne. 3. That I shall never be damned for sinne. 4. That I shall be saved, notwithstanding all my sinnes.
4. They have immunity or freedom from justification by the Law, from all legal 1trials for life: Although you are not freed from the Law as it is a rule for life, yet you are freed from the Law as it is a Covenant of life; although you are not freed from the Law as it is the image of the good and holy will of God, yet because you are under the Covenant of grace, you are freed from the Law as it is a reason of salvation and justification. The Covenant of grace takes you off from that Court and that Bar which pronounceth life upon your own good works; and pronounceth death upon your own evil works; Rom. 3. 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law. Gal. 3. 11. No man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, for the just shall live by faith. As the Law calls for perfect and personal righteousness of our own; so the Law will not justify you, it will not give life unto you, unless it finds that righteousness in you; you live not, if you be not perfectly righteous; absolution is pronounced upon your own perfect innocency, and condemnation is pronounced upon any defect or breach: And verily upon this account, no man living can or shall be justified; therefore here is comfort, that being in Christ, and in this Covenant of grace, ye are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses; See the Apostle,