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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.
The words (you see) are expressed in an hypothetical, or conditional form, If any man, &c. to note unto us,
That something must be done on our part, as well as something on Christs part; though Christ be willing to save a sinner, yet he will not save him against his will. 'Tis true, this willingness to open unto Christ is not a natural, but a supernatural effect, it is voluntas mota, nay mutata, (as Austin rightly speaks) yet it it must be, or else there can be no conversion, no salvation of us.
That something must be done on our part, as well as something on Christs part; though Christ be willing to save a sinner, yet he will not save him against his will. 'Tis true, this willingnesse to open unto Christ is not a natural, but a supernatural effect, it is voluntas mota, nay mutata, (as Austin rightly speaks) yet it it must be, or else there can be no conversion, no salvation of us.
Again, they are expressed in an indefinite way as well as conditional: Not if this or that man; but if any man, &c. To note
Againe, they are expressed in an indefinite way as well as conditional: Not if this or that man; but if any man, &c. To note