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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.
2. Foedus Hypotheticum, which is a gracious promise on Gods part, with an obligation to duty on our part; for although it be natural to God, to recompense 1any good, as it is to punish any evil; And although man doth owe unto God whatsoever God covenanteth with him for; yet it so pleaseth his Divine Will thus to deal with us, that in binding of us to duty unto himself, he binds himself in reward unto us, and promiseth such and such a recompense, upon the condition of such and such a performance.
2. Foedus Hypotheticum, which is a gracious promise on Gods part, with an obligation to duty on our part; for although it be natural to God, to recompence 1any good, as it is to punish any evil; And although man doth owe unto God whatsoever God covenanteth with him for; yet it so pleaseth his Divine Will thus to deale with us, that in binding of us to duty unto himself, he binds himself in reward unto us, and promiseth such and such a recompence, upon the condition of such and such a performance.
- 1And an Hypothetical Covenant.
Now this kind of Covenant is twofold.1
- 1The Covenant is either The Covenant of nature;
1. Foedus Naturae, (as some stile it) or Foedus operum, the Covenant of works as we usually call it; the Apostle calls it the Law of works,