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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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Relatively, in respect of affection and service: I confess that former sinfulness resolutely affected, and bound up with the chief desire, and complacence of the will, is utterly offensive and ⟨p. 119⟩incompatible with Christ; neither will or can he heart of a person, (thus considered) open to Christ, nor will Christ (with such a corrival) step into the heart.
Relatively, in respect of affection and service: I confesse that former sinfulnesse resolutely affected, and bound up with the chief desire, and complacence of the will, is utterly offensive and ⟨p. 119⟩incompatible with Christ; neither will or can he heart of a person, (thus considered) open to Christ, nor will Christ (with such a corrival) step into the heart.
Nevertheless sin absolutely considered (as defiling and transgressing) makes not the person, neither uncapable of Christ, or unsuitable to Christ.
Neverthelesse sinne absolutely considered (as defiling and transgressing) makes not the person, neither uncapable of Christ, or un sutable to •hrist.
A sick person is a proper subject for a Physician, (the whole need not the Physician, but the sick;) a sinner is as proper a subject for a Saviour; For this is a true saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, 1 Tim. 1. 15. Take sin how you please, either as it is a Transgression against the Law, when the Law hath shut and bound up and condemned a transgressor; the Sun can scatter all the clouds, that Ocean swallow up mountains; the Gospel can release and set him free: God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation