A92857:449
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.
Sol. Read the Text again, If any man open, I will come in to him: If you be not out of the number of sinners, you are not out of the reach of the duty, nor out of the compass of his promise.
Sol. Read the Text again, If any man open, I will come in to him: If you be not out of the number of sinners, you are not out of the reach of the duty, nor out of the compasse of his promise.
Obj. Will you say, if we had opened when he knocked, then indeed he would have entered?
Obj. Will you say, if we had opened when he knockt, then indeed he would have entred?
Sol. Read the text again, Beh•ld I stand at the door and knock, if any man will open, &c The hope of entering is not over while the door is opening, and the time of opening is not past whilst the season of knocking doth continue.
Sol. Read the text again, Beh•ld I stand at the door and knock, if any man will open, &c The hope of entring is not over while the door is opening, and the time of opening is not past whilest the season of knocking doth continue.