A92857:791
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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Psal. 45. 10. Forget thine own people, and thy Fathers house. Ver. 11. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, &c. There is such a contrariety 'twixt these two objects (Sin and Christ) and there is such an impossibility of inclination in the heart, to embrace and converse with these two at once, that of necessity you must (as Christ spake of the world and of God) either hate the one, and love the other, or else hold to the one, and despise the •ther, Mat. 6. 24. Christ did lie in a Manger, but never lived in a dunghill.
Psal. 45. 10. Forget thine own people, and thy Fathers house. Ver. 11. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, &c. There is such a contrariety 'twixt these two objects (Sinne and Christ) and there is such an impossibily of inclination in the heart, to embrace and converse with these two at once, that of necessity you must (as Christ spake of the world and of God) either hate the one, and love the other, or else hold to the one, and d•spise the •ther, Mat. 6. 24. Christ did lie in a Manger, but never lived in a dunghil.
Communion, the centre of it, is love (and therefore it is shadowed by Solomons chariot, the midst whereof was paved with love, Cant. 3. 10.) your communion is where your love is, but you ⟨p. 254⟩cannot hold Christ and sin in the same affection.
Communion, the center of it, is love (and therefore it is shadowed by Solomons charit, the midst whereof was paved with love,