A92856:822
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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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.
Secondly: Five things which do show that a man flatters and 1deceives himself about his condition, that it is converted, when yet it falls short thereof.
Secondly: Five things which do shew that a man flatters and 1deceives himself about his condition, that it is converted, when yet it falls short thereof.
- 1Five things show a man deceived about his conversion.Five things shew a man deceived about his conversion.
1. Mere knowledge; though a man knows never so much, yet if he be but a knowing man, he may be a learned man, but he is not a converted man. It is one thing to know controversies, another thing to know Conversion: If the knowledge be without 1. Experience; know what sin is, but feel it not; know what Christ is, but never feel the virtues and powers of his death and resurrection: 2. Propriety; know Christ as a purchase, but not as an inheritance; what he is, and hath done, but not what he is to me, or hath done for me: 3. Power; as a candle that lightens, but not as fire to burn, as an Ornament on a Tomb, not as a Soul to the Body; as a Star which shines in the night, not as the Sun which makes day; new knowledge, but still an old heart: 4. Affections; know sin, but hate it not, nor mourn for it; know Christ, but love and desire him not: 5. Practise, like a Scholar, who knows Countries, but never travels to them; reads the Copy, but writes not after it, know the way to heaven, but never walks the way to heaven.
1. Meer knowledg; though a man knows never so much, yet if he be but a knowing man, he may be a learned man, but he is not a converted man. It is one thing to know controversies, another thing to know Conversion: If the knowledg be without 1. Experience; know what sin is, but feel it not; know what Christ is, but never feel the virtues and powers of his death and resurrection: 2. Propriety; know Christ as a purchase, but not as an inheritance; what he is, and hath done, but not what he is to me, or hath done for me: 3. Power; as a candle that lightens, but not as fire to burn, as an Ornament on a Tomb, not as a Soul to the Body; as a Star which shines in the night, not as the Sun which makes day; new knowledg, but still an old heart: 4. Affections; know sin, but hate it not, nor moun for it; know Christ, but love and desire him not: 5. Practise, like a Scholler, who knows Countries, but never travels to them; reads the Copy, but writes not after it, know the way to heaven, but never walks the way to heaven.