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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.
Or with the devil, who no sooner calls, but you hear, he is opened unto before he knocks: will you open the door to let in hell, and will you not open the door to let in heaven? will you open the door to sin and death, and not to Christ and life? Can you show a more base disesteem of Jesus Christ. Why, what is Christ? and what is the Son of God? and what would you have that you deal thus unworthily with him, and shut him out of your doors?
Or with the devil, who no sooner calls, but you heare, he is opened unto before he knocks: will you open the doore to let in hell, and will you not open the doore to let in heaven? will you open the door to sinne and death, and not to Christ and life? Can you shew a more base disesteeme of Jesus Christ. Why, what is Christ? and what is the Sonne of God? and what would you have that you deal thus unworthily with him, and shut him out of your doors?
Whether you hold out Christ by, 1. Ignorance. 2. Or by incompliance. 3. Or by diffidence, 4. Or by impenitence, yet you and Christ are still asunder, you are Christless, and evangelical offers, though excellent, yet are transient.1
Whether you hold out Christ by, 1. Ignorance. 2. Or by incompliance. 3. Or by diffidence, 4. Or by impenitence, yet you and Christ are still asunder, you are Christlesse, and evangelical offers, though excellent, yet are transient.1
- 1Rara hora Brevis mora.
2. The desperate hazard you run; in the midst of all evangelical knockings; what if death should knock at your doors before