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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.
1. God (at first) made man a goodly creature, and righteous, and as he severed Paradise for his habitation, so he reserved man (above all other creatures) for his own possession.
2. Man quickly dispossessed himself of that condition by sin, and stood now (qua talis) as an outlawry and rejected person.
2. Man quickly dispossessed himself of that condition by sinne, and stood now (qua talis) as an outlawry and rejected person.
3. Christ Jesus was immediately promised as the author of life and salvation, and passed under ⟨p. 160⟩Covenant, and Types, and at length in the fullness of time was incarnated, and as a Mediator and Redeemer, perfectly wrought out Reconciliation and Redemption.
3. Christ Jesus was immediately promised as the author of life and salvation, and passed under ⟨p. 160⟩Covenant, and Types, and at length in the fulnesse of time was incarnated, and as a Mediatour and Redeemer, perfectly wrought out Reconciliation and Redemption.