A92857:356
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 have had many callings, many offers, many knockings at the door from Christ: partly,
1. You have had many callings, many offers, many knockings at the doore from Christ: partly,
By the aspiration of the world; O how many commands? how many entreaties? how many invitations? how many promises?
By the •spiration of the world; O how many commands? how many entreaties? how many invitations? how many promises?
By the inspiration of the Spirit; O how much illumination? how many convictions? How many motions and excitations?
Now what are become of those golden drops? of those celestial breaths, of those almost persuasions, of those unanswerable demonstrations of eternal life by Christ, of eternal life without Christ? Thou hast been awakened by them, why didst thou not rise? Thou didst rise out of thy bed, why didst not ⟨p. 99⟩