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A92856	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.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2378; Thomason E1011; ESTC R203523	357,415	377

delight in him Plusquam mea plusquam meos plusquam me said Bernard 4. When the Lord converts and changeth a person the man presently Steps into the path of new Obedience when Grace hath changed the Heart the Heart instantly changeth its Master and its service O it will not live as it hath done for a thousand Worlds It is a servant of sin no more but a servant of righteousness look on any converted man since the Word began as soon as ever Grace dropt into his Heart a newness of Obedience dropt into his Life against all Ease Pleasures Profits Encouragements Discouragements Threats Dangers It was so with Abraham with Paul with all those thousands in the Acts with all those Ephesians And indeed it cannot be otherwise forasm●ch as all their external course is but the pulse of the Heart The Pondus of the will is changed it is at the command of the Heart which being brought into God the services of the heart are also brought in with it O that you would peruse your selves in this second Tryal what present contratiety you find in your Hearts It is a very neer Tryal and a most Infallible discovery of the truth or falshood or your Change 3. The last Contrariety or Change which I shall but touch As to the time future respects the time Future there are five admirable Properties for the time future which may be found in every truly Changed and Converted person 1. He is very tender and fearful least he should sin against his God Keep thy servant from presum ptuous sins cleanse thou me from secret faults Psal 19. 12 13. Should we again break thy Commandments said Ex●a c. 9. 14. How can I do this Great wickedness and sin against God! said Joseph Gen. 39. 9. There is in a Changed and Converted man 1. A tender Jealousy over a Deceitful heart 2. a tender Watchfulness against Alluring temptations 3. a tender Conscience which feels the first Risings of sin 4. a tender Dissidence of his Own strength 5. a tender Fear and aweful Regard of Gods Presence and Goodness He is afraid to sin although the sin be Secret and although it be Commodious and although it be Pleasant I will but name the rest 2. He is very Zealous and Active for God Paul even besides himself 3. He is very Faithful and Constant unto God 4. He is very Serious and Industrious to get assurance of Gods love and of his inheritance in the highest heavens Give all diligence c. 2 Pet. 1. 10. 5. He strives for the Conversion and change of others The next Use must be of Comfort and Support to all such who find this change wrought in their hearts by converting Grace Use 2. There are four Adjuncts which make this Converting change Comfort to those who are changed unspeakably Comfortable and Joyous 1. Next to Christ it is the choicest and chiefest gift that the heart of man is capable of in this life The gifts of God are of several Orders and several Next to Christ it is the choicest gift the heart is capable of Natures uses and ends some are in order to a natural preservation as food and raiment and Health Some are in order to an extrinsecal condition or State of Life as Honours and civil Authority Some are in order to private society and relation as Wife and Husband and Children Some are in order to secular converse as Father and Friends politick wisdome and parts c. These are all of them good in their kind but as it is said of diverse Captaines belonging to David although they did great matters yet they attained not to the acts of the three first Worthies So none of these rise or mount either to that intrinsecal Dignity or to that supernatural and ultimate End which the change by Grace doth The least drop of Grace is more then all the Ocean of the World The Apostle Paul saith it is a change from Glory to Glory the work is a work of Glory and the man becomes glorious who is a converted man S. Peter saith He is now made partaker of the Divine Nature The excellencies of God are stamped on thy soul the Sun is now risen within thee as the Glory of God filled the Temple so when a man is converted the beams of grace do fill his soul thou art precious the filthy rags are taken away 2. It is an evidence of great love and rich mercy Eph. 2. 4. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he It is an evidence of great love loved us when we were dead hath quickned us c. It is a testimony of the greatest love as it is of the greatest hatred in God to be left to our sinful lusts and wayes 3. Converting grace it is the first visible and sure characteristical It is the first visible distinction betwixt hell and heaven distinction twixt Hell and Heaven twixt Death and Life twixt a Goat and a Sheep twixt a wicked condition and a Godly condition There is a twofold distinction of persons touching their everlasting estates One is in decreto which lies in the brest and counsel of God the other is in decreto which is to be found in the heart of man Now quoad nos quantum ad objectum Converting grace makes the difference it shews who is loved and who is hated it shews who is for Heaven and who is for Hell It is not honour nor wealth nor strength nor parts nor civility nor meanness nor poverty nor education nor knowledg nor trouble of conscience nor restraint nor profession nor external action which is the partition wall which divides and decides the state for the present and future If Ministers or Angels should assure thee of an interest in Christ and of remission of thy sins and of future happiness while yet thy heart is unconverted they do certainly delude and deceive thee for if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature But if God hath converted and changed thy heart thou art assuredly past from death to life thou art among the first born of God No sorts of wicked men are in this changed and converted condition no prophane person no hypocritical person as soon as any is converted it may be said of him as Christ of Zacheus This day is salvation come to him for as much as he also is a child of Abraham 4. It never goes alone it is alwayes accompanied with justification It never goes alone pardon interest in Christ reconciliation with God Jesus was sent to bless them in turning them away from their iniquities Acts 3. 26. Be converted that your sins may be blotted out Acts 3. 19. Come now and let us reason together Isai 55. 7. 1 Cor. 6. 11. But ye are washed but ye are sanctifyed but ye are justifyed c. It is the most comfortable condition 5. It is the most comfortable and joyful condition for now there is

thus and thus and thus have I dishonoured my God Another while he hears and reads and weeps I am that man O Lord I am he of whom thou speakest I am that sinner Iam he who hath out-faced thy Law out-stood thy offers of grace and resisted Oh how often thy good Spirit 5. He is now for the life of God to be wrought in him This he now prizeth as the most excellent life and for this he praies Lord another heart a new spirit 2. The second contrariety respects the time present And As to the time present there are four things for the time present in a truely changed and converted person which never were in him before 1. A present hatred of sin 2. A present flying unto Christ 3. A present love of God 4. A present course of new obedience 1. When the Lord hath converted and changed the heart of a sinner there is wrought in him a present hatred of sin the man loved his sins before and took pleasure in unrighteousness held it fast and defended it sin is now seen as the greatest evil and the more he sees it the more he hates it As soon as ever the heart is changed immediately it is a sin-hating heart I do not say there is no sin but I say the heart hates sin The evil that I hate said Paul Rom. 7. 15. and in Ezek. 36. where God promiseth to give them a new heart he saith Then shall ye remember your own evil wayes and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations Quest But here now is a great Scruple how a person may know that he hates sin Many think they do so and are deceived How a man may know that he hates sin it proves only a passion Sol. In true hatred there are six things 1. An extream detestation Every dislike is not hatred but true hatred is an extream loathing Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloath thou shalt say unto it Get thee hence Isai 30. 22. 2. An earnest separation He that hated his wife did sue out a Bill of divorce from her in the Law 3. An irreconcileable alienation Two angry men may be made friends but if two men hate each other friendship is everlastingly broken betwixt them 4. A constant and perpetual colluctation If they cannot be severed one from the other they still oppose and conflict one with the other 5. A deadly intention and destruction for nothing satisfies hatred but death and ruine Saul hated David and sought his life Absalom hated Amnon and killed him 6. An impartial aversation hatred is of the whole kind I hate every false way Wilt thou now know whether God hath changed thy heart then ask thy heart What is it that thou abhorrest as the superlative evil what is that which thou wouldst have separated as far from thee as heaven is from hell what is that thy heart will never renew league or friendship with any more what is that against which thy soul doth rise and with which as Israel with Amalek thou hast war for ever what is that which thou wilt be avenged of and daily dost endeavour the mortifying and crucifying of what is that which thou sets thy heart against in the comprehensive latitude thereof whether great or little open or secret If it be sin if it be thy sins assuredly here is true hatred of sin and assuredly here is a most distinguishing Character of a sound Conversion and change It was not wont to be thus with thee nor is this findeable in any unconverted person whosoever Sin was once to thee as Dalilah to Samson and now is it to thee as Tamar to Amnon It was a sweet morsel once which thou heldst fast but now it is the menstruous cloath which thou dost cast away and say get thee hence what have I to do any more with Idols If it be thus with thee bless thy God who hath shewed grace to thy soul 2. When the Lord hath changed and converted the heart of a sinner the sinner presently flies unto Jesus Christ The first stroke of Grace is on the heart and the first breathing of Grace is for Christ as the new born babe flies unto the brests or as any creature doth to its center and place of rest For when the heart is changed by converting grace 1. It breeds the most exquisite discovery and sense of sin and consequently of the souls need of Christ 2. It is most impatient of distance or difference with God and prizeth his reconciled favour superlatively cannot live without it 3. It seeth nothing more valuable in it self or more sutable to its condition then Christ Christus amor meus pondus meum And therefore if you take notice of it you may experimentally find upon the first impressions of Grace that the soul is mostly taken up with Christ and with Faith Oh that I might be found in him Oh that I could believe on him It sees excellency in Christ and Peace in Christ and Redemption in Christ and Righteousness in Christ and Grace in Christ and Kindness in Christ and Help and Life and Heaven and all in Christ In Conversion Christ secretly draws the Soul to himself and being converted the soul strives to draw Christ to it self It would have Christ it must have Christ it is never well it is never satisfied until it hath Christ 3. When the Lord hath converted and changed the heart of a sinner there is wrought in him a present love of God It is wonderful to see how the Tide turns upon Conversion There was once one found weeping very bitterly and being demanded why O said he all other things are loved but Amorum amatur Love it self is not loved So before Conversion a man could find love for his Parents and love for his Relations and love for his Recreations and love for his Profits and love for his Sins but no love for God But after Conversion the man can scarce find any love for any unless it be for his God and in his God A graciously changed Heart is enabled to see 1. The glories in God those most Pure and Amiable Excellencies in God 2. The Transcendent Love of God to it in the Eternity of it in the Freeness of it in the Sweetness and Goodness of it 3. The Unspeakable Communications and Bounties of God towards it in Jesus Christ for the present and for the future It is Grace which makes us to see what a gracious God he is It is Grace which makes us to see what a Royal gift Jesus Christ is It is Grace which makes us apprehensive of all the Love in God and from God and therefore no marvel that the changed heart fals presently in love with God O Love the Lord all ye his Saints into a Love of Friendship and into a Love of Complacence as they speake that it admires God and prizeth Communion with him and takes its full and highest