(by Obadiah Sedgwick in 1657)
Christ is a thousand times more willing to come to the sinner than the sinner is to come to Christ. He is at the door before the sinner ever thinks of Him; and He doth not only come to the door, but knocks at the door, so that ofttimes He breaks open the door: coming and calling will not be heard, and therefore He knocks.
He doth not come and go away presently, nor call and go away presently, no, nor knock and go away presently, but He stands and knocks. His standing at the door notes His continuing patience, and His continuing study of our salvation. His knocking notes His earnest importunity.
At the doors of sinners does Christ stand and knock. He knocks at the doors of beggars, bringing mercy to misery, happiness to wretchedness, riches to poverty, light to blindness, and all-sufficiency to nakedness.
He beseeches those poor and miserable sinners to take gold from Him, those naked sinners to take raiment from Him, and those blind sinners to take ointment from Him.