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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.
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⟩thou step down to the door? Thou didst step down to the door, why didst not thou open? Why didst thou step back from thy convictions, from thy resolutions?
Now what are become of those golden drops? of those coelestial breaths, of those almost perswasions, 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⟩thou step down to the door? Thou didst step down to the door, why didst not thou open? Why didst thou step back from thy convictions, from thy resolutions?
2. Christ is worthy, is most worthy of admission: Sirs, is Jesus Christ a considerable object in your eyes or not? Is there any worth at all or value in him? Is there more worth in a saving Christ, then in a damning lust? can any thing stand in competition with him, either for intrinsical perfection, or for respective perfection to your souls? is the creature (that specious, short, transient, empty nothing) fit to be let in, and set up in the heart? Is sin (that vile, in glorious, God-dishonouring, and soul-damning hell) fit to be let in and set up in the heart? shall that which is the least of good, (the world) and that which is the greatest of evil (sin) lie in the chamber and Christ (the centre of happiness)