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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
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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.
2. What the opening of that door is, and how far it extends.
2. What the opening of that door is, and how farre it extends.
3. Why that door must be opened, since Christ is able by his omnipotency to come into the soul of a sinner without his opening.
Quest. 1. What door of a sinner that is which must be opened unto Christ calling and knocking?
Sol. The door in the general is the whole soul of man: The soul of man is the house in which Christ desires to dwell: And it is 1the door too through which Christ intends to enter, although some other Lord hath got possession, yet the soul belongs only to Christ, as by right of creation, (for he made it) so also by right of Redemption, (for he hath ⟨p. 80⟩