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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. You are never able to stand out, and live under the Covenant of Works. There 1are but two Covenants which we must abide by; In one of them all men of necessity must be found: either in the Covenant of Grace, or in the Covenant of Works; These are like the two Masters of whom Christ doth speak, that one cannot serve them both either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matth. 6. 24. So no man can be under both these Covenants at once; if he refuse the one, he chooseth the other; and if he chooseth the one, he refuseth the other: If you refuse to come into the Covenant of Grace, of necessity you remain under the Covenant of Works; and then you are as surely lost and destroyed, as you now live: for the Covenant of works condemns and curses the sinner (cursed is every one wh• continues n•t in every thing that is written to do it, Gal 3. 10.) And you are exceedingly sinful; the Law of God finds you so, and your own consciences testify against you as so; Neither have you any way to escape that curse of the Law, nor the wrath of God revealed against all unrighteousness, and ungodliness, but in the Covenant of Grace (because there only a Saviour and mercy is to be found) but you perversely refuse to enter into that Covenant with God.2
1. You are never able to stand out, and live under the Covenant of Works. There 1are but two Covenants which we must abide by; In one of them all men of necessity must be found: either in the Covenant of Grace, or in the Covenant of Works; These are like the two Masters of whom Christ doth speak, that one cannot serve them both either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matth. 6. 24. So no man can be under both these Covenants at once; if he refuse the one, he chuseth the other; and if he chuseth the one, he refuseth the other: If you refuse to come into the Covenant of Grace, of necessity you remain under the Covenant of Works; and then you are as surely lost and destroyed, as you now live: for the Covenant of works condemns and curses the sinner (cursed is every one wh cntinues nt in every thing that is written to do it, Gal 3. 10.) And you are exceedingly sinful; the Law of God findes you so, and your own consciences testifie against you as so; Neither have you any way to escape that curse of the Law, nor the wrath of God revealed against all unrighteousnesse, and ungodliness, but in the Covenant of Grace (because there only a Saviour and mercy is to be found) but you perversely refuse to enter into that Covenant with God.