A92857:98
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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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. 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.
2. They were a proudly conceited people (vers. 17. Thou sayest I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.)
3. They were (in respect of all spirituals) a most destitute people: not a doit of goodness, nor any one rag of grace; nor good in any one part, (ver. 19. Thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. They could bring nothing at all to Christ, there was not any one thing considerable in them; nay, every thing which might raise distaste and disregard.) And all this miserable condition, was the more miserable, because they were thus miserable and knew it not.