A92857:378
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.
1. Election, which is a preacceptation of a good before an evil, or of one good before another. 2. Consent, which is a complying of the will with the judgement in a good propounded, and apprehended, and approved. ⟨p. 108⟩3. Intention, which is a tendency, or an extending of the will in the use of means for the assecution of a good represented and desired. 4. Imperium, or command, which is a secret authority it hath to do dispose all the faculties of the soul to move according to its bent. 5. Fruition, which is a delightful acquiescence in a good possessed. All this appears in the heart which is rightly opened unto Christ. The Will,
1. Election, which is a preacceptation of a good before an evil, or of one good before another. 2. Consent, which is a complying of the will with the judgement in a good propropanded, and apprehended, and approved. ⟨p. 108⟩3. Intention, which is a tendancy, or an extending of the will in the use of means for the assecution of a good represented and desired. 4. Imperium, or command, which is a secret authority it hath to do dispose all the faculties of the soule to move according to its bent. 5. Fruition, which is a delightful acquiescence in a good possessed. All this appears in the heart which is rightly opened unto Christ. The Will,
1. Makes choice of Christ, above all, and before all: Sin is vile, and the world is empty; there is none in heaven that the soul prefers to Christ, or on earth that it desires in comparison of Christ: Christ is best, best of all.
1. Makes choise of Christ, above all, and before all: Sinne is vile, and the world is empty; there is none in heaven that the soul prefers to Christ, or on earth that it desires in compariof Christ: Christ is best, best of all.