A92856:546
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 when Salvation is offered, now while Christ tenders himself, I now yield up my heart and life unto him. 3. An obliging of the Soul to Christ; for, ex contractu oritur vinculum; 1some call this traditio, or, resig•atio: and therefore Marriage is a Knot or Tie, wherein persons are mutually limited and bound each to other in a way of Conjugal separation from all others; and this in Scripture is called a Covenant. So when any one Marries Christ, he doth therein discharge himself in affection and subjection from all that is contrary to Christ; and solemnly Covenants and binds himself to Christ alone: He will have no Saviour and no Lord but Christ, and to him will he cleave for ever; Simpliciter & indissolubiliter, & persona, & statu, & tempore: It is not every apprehension, nor every transient approbation, but the Will must come to an obligation, binding it self in a perpetual Covenant to Christ alone. 4. An Union or Conjunction 2with Christ: Before Marriage the persons were distinct, and had no other relation but what was common to Nature; but upon Marriage two are made one flesh, 1 Cor. 6. 16. This ⟨p. 215⟩is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, said Adam of his Wife, Gen. 2. So when the soul is married unto Christ, not only in respect of affection (for love unites) but likewise in respect of nature; he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit, saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6. 17. That Nature which is in Christ, it is participated of by him that is married unto Christ; so that there doth arise, upon this marriage, the nearest and dearest relation of union that is in all the world. 5. A faculty of right or interest: Indeed Christs faculty over us is, facultas Dominii, & facultas Influ•ntiae; 3a faculty of Dominion (he hath a right to rule and guide us) and a faculty of Influence, he hath a right to teach and heal us: Such a faculty of Sovereignty we have not over Christ; yet we have acultatem Juris, a faculty of Right or Interest, which they call Jus in re, or as others, a faculty of propriety. Though the Wife hath not a power of authority over her Husband, yet she hath a power of propriety in her Husband; that as he can say, This is my Wife, so she can say, This is my Husband. In like manner, whosoever is married unto Christ, he hath an interest in the person, in the condition of Christ;