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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.
Observ. 1. That Jesus Christ is exceeding ready and willing to come in to sinners and to save them, Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
Observ. 1. That Jesus Christ is exceeding ready and willing to come in to sinners and to save them, Behold, I stand at the doore and knock.
There are five things in the Text, and from the precedent part of this Epistle to the Church of Laodicea, which plainly demonstrate the truth of the proposition.
1. If you observe first the quality of the persons, at whose doors Christ did stand and knock.
1. They were a mere formal people, there was little or no power of godliness at all in them (ver. 15. Thou art neither hot nor cold) A company of mere hypocrites, or at least of formal professors.
1. They were a meer formal people, there was little or no power of godliness at all in them (ver. 15. Thou art neither hot nor cold) A company of meer hypocrites, or at least of formal professors.