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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.
2. All that may make thee up in all conditions, Christ will be that unto thee; do losses befall thee for Christ? Christ will make them up: He alone will be better to thee then all the world; what thou losest in the world, thou shalt find in him. Arnulphus cried out on his death-bed, O ⟨p. 190⟩Christ, How true art thou in thy promises? how true art thou in thy promises? how true art thou in thy promises? They about him asked what he meant thereby; O saith he, Christ promised, that if any forsook wife and children, and house, and friends for his sake, he should receive an hundred fold in this world. This saith he hath my Saviour verified to me, for I will not part with the love of Christ, and the joy I find in my Christ for a thousand worlds.
2. All that may make thee up in all conditions, Christ will be that unto thee; do losses befal thee for Christ? Christ will make them up: He alone will be better to thee then all the world; what thou losest in the world, thou shalt finde in him. Arnulphus cryed out on his death-bed, O ⟨p. 190⟩Christ, How true art thou in thy promises? how true art thou in thy promises? how true art thou in thy promises? They about him asked what he meant thereby; O saith he, Christ promised, that if any forsook wife and children, and house, and friends for his sake, he should receive an hundred fold in this world. This saith he hath my Saviour verified to me, for I will not part with the love of Christ, and the joy I finde in my Christ for a thousand worlds.
Doth exile, imprisonment, any hardship befall thee for Christ? Christ will make up all; Thou mayest be forced from thy possessions, but Christ will not be severed from his possession: When Paul was bound at Jerusalem, Christ was with him; when he was thrown into the Castle, Christ 1was with him; when he was at sea, Christ was with him; when he was chained at Rome, Christ also was with him.