A92857:382
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.
4. Commands all the man to give up to Christ: every room in the house, every faculty in the soul; it will set up Christ in our contemplation, in our judgments, in our affections, in our speeches, in our studies, in our lives.
4. Commands all the man to give up to Christ: every room in the house, every facultie in the soul; it will set up Christ in our contemplation, in our judgments, in our affections, in our speeches, in our studies, in our lives.
5. The fruition of Christ is most sweet and pleasant: I have enough, said Jacob, Joseph is yet alive: The Merchant who sold all for the pearl, and bought it, rejoiced in his pearl: Christ alone is Portion, and Lands, and Houses, and Father, and Mother, and Sister, and Brother, and Profit, and Pleasure, and Comfort, and Happiness enough to the soul that opens unto Christ.
5. The fruition of Christ is most sweet and pleasunt: I have enough, said Jacob, Joseph is yet alive: The Merchant who sold all for the pearl, and bought it, rejoyced in his pearle: Christ alone is Portion, and Lands, and Houses, and Father, and Mother, and Sister, and Brother, and Profit, and Pleasure, and Comfort, and Happinesse enough to the soule that opens unto Christ.
2. A whole Christ is opened unto: O brethren, as Christ, so every thing in and about Christ, is precious: His salvation is precious, his doctrine is precious, his way is precious, his redemption is precious, his righteousness is precious, his holiness is precious, his blood is precious, his will is precious. His Priestly office is precious, and so is his Prophetical office, and so is his Kingly office: Reigning with Christ is precious, and so is suffering for Christ; Gaining by Christ is precious, and so is losing for Christ; Receiving from Christ is precious, and so is doing for Christ; The comforting virtue of Christ is precious, and so is his mortifying virtue, and so is his healing virtue, and so is his guiding or leading virtue. An half Christ was never ordained to be a Saviour, the whole Lamb was a sacrifice; and a whole Christ is a sinners salvation.