A92857:85
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.
1. There is an Universality,
1. There is an Ʋniversality,
Of proposition: this in some sense granted. Of collation: this is denied.
2. There is a sufficiency so as to leave men inexcusable, and there is a sufficiency to conversion, this latter only to a few, the former is more general.
3. If you speak of all men absolutely, that have been, are, or shall be in the world, the Proposition is denied.
If you speak of all in the evangelical world (that is) to whom the Gospel is preached, It is granted that the tender is indefinitely universal, and enough is offered if men did accept of it.