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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.
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, Rom. 3. 27. This is the Covenant which God made with man in the state of innocency before the fall; ⟨p. 7⟩wherein God promised unto man life and happiness, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience; and it is summed up by the Apostle, Gal. 3. 12. Do this and live. God having created man upright after his own Image, and so having furnished him with all abilities sufficient for obedience, thereupon he made a Covenant with him for life upon the condition of obedience; I say, he made such a Covenant with Adam as a public person; and as he promised life to him and his posterity, in case of obedience, so he threatened death and a curse unto him and his posterity in case of disobedience. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, Gen. 2. 17. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the Law to do them, Gal. 3. 10.
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, Rom. 3. 27. This is the Covenant which God made with man in the state of innocency before the fall; ⟨p. 7⟩wherein God promised unto man life and happinesse, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience; and it is summed up by the Apostle, Gal. 3. 12. Do this and live. God having created man upright after his own Image, and so having furnished him with all abilities sufficient for obedience, thereupon he made a Covenant with him for life upon the condition of obedience; I say, he made such a Covenant with Adam as a publick person; and as he promised life to him and his posterity, in case of obedience, so he threatened death and a curse unto him and his posterity in case of disobedience. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die,