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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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The last use shall be of Exhortation to all who are out of communion with Christ: do not rest thus, but use all the means ⟨p. 265⟩of heaven, that you may come into this communion.
Two things (if rightly considered) will I trust, move you to hearken unto this counsel.
1. The unspeakable misery of a person out of it; And here I know not how to begin: If a non-communion with the Church of God be so direful a curse, that Cain cries out, (thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the Earth, and every one that finds me will s•ay me, Genesis 4. 14.) O then what is a non-communion with Jesus Christ! Luther doth profess, That he would not be in heaven, if God were not there; and he could be content to be in Hell, if God were there But where should he be willing to be, who is no where with ⟨p. 266⟩Christ? If he lives, he lives without Christ; if he dies, he dies not unto Christ: I may say of him as Christ of Judas, It had been better for that man that he had never been born.
1. The unspeakable misery of a person out of it; And here I know not how to begin: If a non-communion with the Church of God be so direful a curse, that Caine cryes out, (thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the Earth, and every one that findes me will say me,