A92857:469
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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One is considerative, which is a s•rious and full weighing of the souls condition as wanting Christ, or as enjoying of him; I am but a dead man if I refuse Christ; If I embrace him, I am blessed, in the one scale is eternal misery, in the other scale is eternal felicity, upon the turning of either, is the turning of my soul, ⟨p. 149⟩my precious soul. If I will not open to Christ upon his own conditions, my soul is lost, (O my soul, what loss is the loss of a soul?) If my heart be willing to open, my soul is saved; (O the mercy, the grace, the peace, the life, the heaven in that one word!)
One is considerative, which is a s•rious and full weighing of the soules condition as wanting Christ, or as enjoying of him; I am but a dead man if I refuse Christ; If I embrace him, I am blessed, in the one scale is eternal misery, in the other scale is eternal felicity, upon the turning of either, is the turning of my soul, ⟨p. 149⟩my precious soul. If I will not open to Christ upon his own conditions, my soul is lost, (O my soul, what losse is the losse of a soul?) If my heart be willing to open, my soul is saved; (O the mercy, the grace, the peace, the life, the heaven in that one word!)
Suppose I keep my sins and hold fast the world, and let go the offer of Christ, where is the gain, what is the safety, whence is the comfort by this, what will be the issue? Suppose I open to Christ, and let go my sins, and part with the world, what is my loss? where is my diminution? can happiness impoverish me? can all-sufficiency be loss to me? can salvation distress me? If I be not a sinner, why do I talk of a Saviour? if I be, why do I not receive an offered Saviour? If I be a sinner, do not I need a Saviour? If it be a tender mercy to offer, is it more then a wise duty ⟨p. 150⟩