A92856:557
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
And shoes on his Feet.
This is the third Favour which is bestowed upon the repenting Prodigal; his Lips were kissed, his Back was clothed, his Hand was adorned, and now his Feet are shod; the penitent person is only the complete person. But what these 1Feet are, and what the Shoes which are put-on them, is a point differently conjectured of by Interpreters. Sol. Not to waste time, both the Words are Metaphorically to be understood for some things which do in some respects answer to Feet, and Shoes. Feet are taken sometimes, 1. for the springs of our actions and courses; as for our Will and Affections, so Eccles. 5. 1. 2. For the actions and courses ⟨p. 223⟩themselves, which Solomon calls the path of our feet, Prov. 4. 26. And in this sense David saith, Wilt thou not keep my feet from falling? Psal. 56. 13. and God is said to guide the feet of his People, and to preserve the feet of his Saints, 1 Sam. 2. 9. And Shoes on the feet, are also diversly taken in a metaphorical sense: 1. Sometimes for a mortified disposition to the world, as the shoes keep the feet at a distance from the earth, and with them we trample upon the earth. 2. Sometimes for strength against passive injuries and evils; as feet shod can pass upon sharp thorns and stones; this is called, Feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Christ,