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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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Let our condition be never so great, it is but a hell without Christ, let it be never so flat, it is heaven sufficient if we enjoy Christ.
Who can say he wants nothing, who wants Christ? who can say he wants any thing, who wants not a Christ.
6. For duration: all other communions are in hazard, and receive their period. The communion ⟨p. 231⟩'twixt man and wife, hath this inscription upon it, yours for life; The communion 'twixt a man and his friend hath this subscription to it, yours till death; the communion that a man hath with the creatures, hath this motto on it, yours till trouble; the communion that a man hath with the pleasures of sin, hath this character on it, yours till conscience awakes, or at least, till hell follows; the communion that Adam had with God in Paradise, had this Epitaph on it, yours till temptation. Either that moth of death, or that wave of trouble, or that flash in conscience, or that decreed period to all creatures crack asunder all these communions, and in a moment make their graves: so that we do many times scarce taste the sweetness of them in fruition, before we are swallowed up with bitterness for the loss of them. But the communion 'twixt Christ and ⟨p. 232⟩the believer is begun in mercy, is maintained by infiniteness, and prolonged to eternity; our life will end, and the world will end, and time will end, but this communion shall never end.
6. For duration: all other communions are in hazard, and receive their period. The communion ⟨p. 231⟩