A92856:117
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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2. A Position, which is this, Though after punishment they will be progressive in sin, yet they shall never be successful in sin: 1They may renew their work, but they shall never amend their wages; they may set up again, but they shall break again; if they, after so great a shaking, will build upon the same foundation, they shall find their future labours to end in the same ruin: Nay, that's not all; but as Joshua's curse upon the man who should again build the City Jericho, was, that He should lay the foundation thereof in his first-born, and in his youngest son he set up the gates of it, Jos. 6. 26. So will it prove to the person whose sins God did strive to demolish, and overthrow by former punishments, if he again will presume to set up the gates of them, recover them to their strength by future love, and further progress; he shall be so far from being hereby more successful, that his condition doth become more fearful; he doth lay his foundation again in the ruin of his soul, and shall build up the gates with a greater curse from God. Therefore you read of such who are entangled again, That their latter end is worse then ⟨p. 33⟩their beginning. 2 Pet. 2. 20. Men are entangled again, when (either by the vigour of conscience, or sharpness of affliction, &c.) they have made a pause or stop; but, like the restrained River, which climbs over the Dam, so they get over these, unto their course of sinning again: Now saith the Apostle, these men shall never better their estates, nay, they make them the worse; the latter end of them, or with them, is worse then the beginning.
2. A Posi•ion, which is this, Though after punishment they will be progressive in sin, yet they shall never be successfull in sin: 1They may renew their work, but they shall never amend their wages; they may set up again, but they shall break again; if they, after so great a shaking, will build upon the same foundation, they shall find their future labours to end in the same ruine: Nay, that's not all; but as Joshuah's curse upon the man who should again build the City Jericho, was, that He should lay the foundation thereof in his first-born, and in his youngest son he set up the gates of it,