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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
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.
3. The chain of self ease. These will hold thee till thou art bound up in chains of everlasting darkness, unless God be the more merciful to thee.
3. The chain of self ease. These will hold thee till thou art bound up in chains of everlasting darknesse, unless God be the more merciful to thee.
These are the things which make men either totally to stand out, or only Hypocritically (in a fit) to pretend that they will open unto Christ; the love of a sin makes them shut the door again, and so doth the love of the world, and the love of ⟨p. 62⟩their ease, and liberty and respects, &c.
These are the things which make men either totally to stand out, or onely Hypocritically (in a fit) to pretend that they will open unto Christ; the love of a sinne makes them shut the door again, and so doth the love of the world, and the love of ⟨p. 62⟩their ease, and liberty and respects, &c.
3. The proud and irrational perverseness of the will, this is many times a special cause why Christ is made to stand long and knock.
3. The proud and irrational perversnesse of the will, this is many times a special cause why Christ is made to stand long and knock.