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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.
1. You must distinguish 'twixt officium and principium: I do not say that the sinner can open his door to Christ but that he ought to open it: the ability is one thing, the duty is another.
1. You must distiguish 'twixt officium and principium: I do not say that the sinner can open his door to Christ but that he ought to open it: the ability is one thing, the duty is another.
2. Although it be true, that in conversion, the sinner doth actually open the door to Christ, yet you must distinguish 'twixt what he doth virtute innata, and what he doth virtute illata: by a power of his own, and by a power given unto him: the former we deny, the latter we grant.
These things being premised I shall now discuss three particulars.
These things being premised I shall now discusse three particulars.
1. What door of a sinner that is which must be opened.