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The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor…
The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor sinners. Wherein is set out, the gracious behaviour of Christ, standing at the door and knocking for entrance. The dutiful behaviour of sinners in hearing Christs voice and opening to him. And the comfortable event upon them both. / By Obadiah Sedgwick. B.D. and late minister of the Gospel in Covent-Garden.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Adoniram Byfield, 1657
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If you could know all the prayers, which a faithful Minister (whom Christ sets over you) puts up every day to heaven for you, and all his tears, beside his cares and studies. If you could number ⟨p. 44⟩all the Sermons which have been preached unto you, (such a day of the week, every Lords day) and the thousands of Exhortations, not to stand out against Christ, not to refuse his salvation, to be persuaded to give way to Jesus Christ.
If you could know all the prayers, which a faithful Minister (whom Christ sets over you) puts up every day to heaven for you, and all his tears, beside his cares and studies. If you could number ⟨p. 44⟩all the Sermons which have been preached unto you, (such a day of the week, every Lords day) and the thousands of Exhortations, not to stand out against Christ, not to refuse his salvation, to be perswaded to give way to Jesus Christ.
If (beside all these) it were possible for you to fetch back and present to your own eyes, the millions of internal motions, in the space of many years, the number of those secret parlies, and and touches of Jesus Christ at your hearts: You would then say, Christ indeed hath stood at your doors and knocked; And perhaps be ashamed that you have held out Christ so long. If a beggar should stand at your doors but one day, for one penny, men would cry shame on you! and yet thou hast held out Christ these twenty years standing at thy door. Christ hath stood at thy doors, with commands in one ⟨p. 45⟩hand, and with entreaties in an other hand, he hath stood at thy doors with promises in his mouth, and with tears in his eyes; he hath stood at thy door with heaven in his fingers, and sorrow in his soul; with arms of mercy to clasp thee, if thou openest; with floods of compassion to bewail thee, if thou refusest.