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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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Wilt thou say? I would have opened my heart had it not been for the love of one sin, or the love of a little earth, and ease, and liberty, and safety, and honours, or to please some friends and company: O how will men and Angels hiss at thee? This is a person who for a lusts sake forsook his mercies, who for a little vanity rejected his own salvation. O how wilt thou curse thy self, that for nothing, for that which is worse then nothing; ⟨p. 145⟩thou hast put off Christ and his salvation. And therefore Men, Fathers and Brethren hearken unto me, as Moses once to the Israelites, so do I propound this day unto you, blessing and cursing, life and death; salvation if you will open to Christ, and damnation if you will refuse Christ. O choose not cursing but blessing, choose not death but life, choose not hell but heaven, choose not sin but Christ, although you have formerly slighted, if yet you will regard; though you have formerly contemned, if yet you will prize; though you have formerly resisted, if yet you will yield, if yet you will consent, if yet you will become willing to open unto Christ, Christ will be yours, Mercy will be yours, and Salvation will be yours.
Wilt thou say? I would have opened my heart had it not been for the love of one sinne, or the love of a little earth, and ease, and liberty, and safety, and honours, or to please some friends and company: O how will men and Angels hisse at thee? This is a person who for a lusts sake forsook his mercies, who for a little vanity rejected his own salvation. O how wilt thou curse thy self, that for nothing, for that which is worse then nothing; ⟨p. 145⟩thou hast put off Christ and his salvation. And therefore Men, Fathers and Brethren hearken unto me, as Moses once to the Israelites, so do I propound this day unto you, blessing and cursing, life and death; salvation if you will open to Christ, and damnation if you will refuse Christ. O chuse not cursing but blessing, chuse not death but life, chuse not hell but heaven, chuse not sin but Christ, although you have formerly slighted, if yet you will regard; though you have formerly contemned, if yet you will prize; though you have formerly resisted, if yet you will yeild, if yet you will consent, if yet you will become willing to open unto Christ, Christ will be yours, Mercy will be yours, and Salvation will be yours.