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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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Use 1. Doth Christ so importunately knock, and so patiently wait? then be informed,
Ʋse 1. Doth Christ so importunately knock, and so patiently wait? then be informed,
1. Of the pride and stubbornness, and rebellion which lie in the will of sinful man: The Pelagians of old, and the Arminians of late, talk much of the sovereignty, and virginity, and liberty of mans will; What ship-wrack it alone, hath escaped in the fall of man, and of the sufficiency of a moral swa•ion, to mans conversion, as if God needed to do no more to save us, then devil doth to damn us. Yea, and you shall find the hearts of ignorant people generally leavened with this proud error, though we know not so much as others, and fall short of them in ability, yet we have as good a will as the best. O poor sinner, ⟨p. 55⟩if thy will be so good, why hast thou held out Christ all this while? why doest thou not open the door to Christ? No, no! of 1all the faculties in thy soul, Thy will is the worst; Here lies thy greatest misery and hell, thou wilt not come to Christ, thou wilt not be gathered, thou wilt not (with Babylon) be healed, thou wilt not part with thy sins for a saving Christ.
1. Of the pride and stubbornness, and rebellion which lie in the will of sinful man: The Poelagians of old, and the Arminians of late, talk much of the sovereignty, and virginity, and liberty of mans will; What ship-wrack it alone, hath escaped in the fall of man, and of the sufficiency of a moral swa•ion, to mans conversion, as if God needed to do no more to save us, then devil doth to damne us. Yea, and you shall finde the hearts of ignorant people generally leaven'd with this proud errour, though we know not so much as others, and fall short of them in ability, yet we have as good a will as the best. O poor sinner,