A92857:293
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.
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
That there is a latitude, a full ⟨p. 77⟩latitude in the offer of Christ and grace: No sinner (under the Gospel) is excluded by Christ, but by himself. Although the Application of Christ be definite and particular, yet the proclamation is indefinite and general: Favours (say the Lawyers)▪ sunt ampliandi.
Now the condition of Christs entrance, is only this, If any man hear my voice and open the door: The hearing answers to his counselling, in verse 18. and the opening answers to his knocking in v. 20. Both of them united make up (if I mistake not) that which we call believing, which comes by hearing, and is in it self the ear of the soul to hearken, and the key of the soul to open unto Christ: But of this more anon; In the mean time there are two very remarkable propositions from the Text.
Now the condition of Christs entrance, is only this, If any man hear my voice and open the doore: The hearing answers to his counselling, in verse 18. and the opening answers to his knocking in v. 20. Both of them united make up (if I mistake not) that which we call beleeving, which comes by hearing, and is in it self the eare of the soul to hearken, and the key of the soul to open unto Christ: But of this more anon; In the mean time there are two very remarkable propositions from the Text.