A92857:631
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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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. In their graces: which are as it were the face and image of Christ in the soul: A believing soul is the reflex of Christ, and their graces are compared in Cant. 4. to the smell of ointment, v. 10. to the chief spices, ver. 14. to pleasant fruit, ver. 13. to a fountain of gardens, ver. 15.
2. In their graces: which are as it were the face and image of Christ in the soul: A beleeving soul is the reflex of Christ, and their graces are compared in Cant. 4. to the smel of oyntment, v. 10. to the chiefe spices, ver. 14. to pleasant fruit, ver. 13. to a fountaine of gardens, ver. 15.
3. In their services, which are therefore styled mountains of myrrh, and hills of Frankincense, Cant. 4. 6. A little Myrrh and Frankincense is sweet and pleasing, what is an hill or mountain of them? Ver. 10. The smell of thine ointments is better then all spices. Ver. 11. Thy lips, O my Spouse drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. When Noah prayed and offered a burnt offering, the Lord smelled a sweet savour, Gen. 8. 20, 21. When the Philippians exercised acts of mercy, they were 1as odours of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God▪
3. In their services, which are therefore stiled mountaines of myrrh, and hills of Frankincense, Cant. 4. 6. A little Myrrh and Frankincense is sweet and pleasing, what is an hill or mountaine of them? Ver. 10. The smell of thine oyntments is better then all spices. Ver. 11. Thy lips, O my Spouse drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebann. When Noah prayed and offered a burnt offering, the Lord smelled a sweet savour,