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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
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.
For the Explication: These questions must be unfolded.
Quest. What door is in this place meant.
Sol. A door (properly) is an entering into, and a passage out of an house, such was the door at which Peter knocked, Acts 12. 13.
Sol. A door (properly) is an entring into, and a passage out of an house, such was the door at which Peter knockt, Acts 12. 13.
But Metaphorically. It is applied, sometimes