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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.
Four things ever precede the state of communion.
1. Contrition of heart: A broken heart and a broken Christ will live together, but an hardened heart, and a gracious Christ cannot. An heart merely humbled is a legal heart (that is) fit for the Law to deal with.
1. Contrition of heart: A broken heart and a broken Christ will live together, but an hardned heart, and a gracious Christ cannot. An heart meerly humbled is a legal heart (that is) fit for the Law to deal with.
A broken heart is a Gospel heart fit for Christ to have communion with.
Isaiah 66. 2. I will look to him who is of a contrite Spirit.