A92857:209
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Sol. The causes are these of a double sort, some
1. On Christs part. 2. On the sinners part.1
- 1A merciful high Priest Heb. 2. 17.
1. On Christs part.
1. Christ is God, and because he is God, he is therefore merciful, willing to show mercy to sinners in misery, and unwilling to destroy them: How shall I give thee up O Ephraim. He is long-suffering: 1God is a long-suffering God, and so is Christ; He is a much-suffering Christ, and a long-suffering Christ. 2 Pet. 3. 9. The Lord is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.