A92856:541
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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It must work in us, both estimation (for our judgments) and acceptation (for our wills;) so that it must make us one with Christ, and so we come to be clothed with the Garment of Christ: But perhaps you can rest upon your own good meanings, works, innocency. You are rich, and need not to borrow any Garment; you are united to your lusts, and will not part with them for Christ, nor for all his Ornament. 3. This Robe 1of righteousness, and that other of holiness are inseparable: It is granted, that inherent holiness is not formally the same with imputed righteousness; it is granted, that the one is in Christ, the other is in us; that the one is perfect, the other is imperfect; that the one is meritorious, the other though it be precious, yet it is not meritorious: Yet as the light, and heat of the Sun, though the one be not the other, ere they go together; so the Robe of righteousness, and the Robe of holiness go together; the new Garment is only to be seen upon the new man. Therefore you read, that Christ is made not only Righteousness, but also Sanctification: Righteousness, this is a grace without us, whereby we are advanced; Sanctification, this is a grace wrought within us, by which we advance and glorify God; that respects the State, this the nature of the person: As Grace must reign through righteousness to eternal life, Ro. 5. 21. So also holiness must reign to everlasting life, Ro. 6. 22. The one as a cause, the other as a means. Now then, as if thou canst discern any light in the morning, thou concludest that the Sun is risen, so if thou canst discover any true holiness in thy heart, thou mayest conclude that the Sun of righteousness is risen: the appearing of holiness is a sign of the rising of righteousness. ⟨p. 213⟩Yea, the Prophet speaking of the Sun of Righteousness, saith, He shall arise with healing in his wings, Mal. 4. 2. to intimate, That where righteousness comes, there holiness comes. Ah! dost thou find no change in thy Nature, in thy Judgment, in thy Mind, in thy Will, in thy Affections? why (as sure as the Lord lives) thou hast not yet put on this Robe of righteousness. Doth Christ present thy person unspotted before God? and doth he (thinkest thou) leave thy heart with all its spots and filthiness?
It must work in us, both estimation (for our judgments) and acceptation (for our wills;) so that it must make us one with Christ, and so we come to be cloathed with the Garment of Christ: But perhaps you can rest upon your own good meanings, works, innocency. You are rich, and need not to borrow any Garment; you are united to your lusts, and will not part with them for Christ, nor for all his Ornament. 3. This Robe