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The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from…
The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from God. Returning prodigal, or The penitents conversion to God. Prodigals acceptation, or Favourable entertainment with God. Delivered in divers sermons on Luke 15. from vers. 11. to vers. 24. By that faithful servant of Jesus Christ Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and perused by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from God. Returning prodigal, or The penitents conversion to God. Prodigals acceptation, or Favourable entertainment with God. Delivered in divers sermons on Luke 15. from vers. 11. to vers. 24. By that faithfull servant of Jesus Christ Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and perused by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by D. Maxwel for Sa. Gellibrand, 1660
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But now for the opening of this Proposition, I will briefly discuss, 1. What this lowly humbleness is, which accompanies true Repentance? 2. The Causes why true Penitents are so humbly lowly? 3. Some useful Application of this.
But now for the opening of this Proposition, I will briefly discuss, 1. What this lowly humbleness is, which accompanies true Repentance? 2. The Causes why true Penitents are so humbly lowly? 3. Some usefull Application of this.
Sol. It is not a promiscuous familiarity with every body; such an humbleness becomes Solomon's fool; nor is it an affected garb of complemental dissimulation, that was Absalom's treacherous stirrup to mount up himself into the Throne; nor is it a slavingly abasing of a mans self to acts incongruous with the dignity of his place and calling; this were to be the Tom of a Parish; nor is it a denial of those gifts and graces that God hath bestowed upon us, this is a modest lie, it is not lowliness; nor is it passive humiliation, wherein the spirit may be cracked as low as Hell, and yet be still as proud as Hell; nor is it a rejecting of Gods promises, because we can bring no worth unto them: But Humbleness which accompanies Repentance, It is a Grace of Gods Spirit, whereby the penitential person, from right knowledge, becomes low in his own eyes,