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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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3. No punishment which any sinner hath already felt, is a discharge, 1but only a part of greater punishment yet due unto him. As the first-fruits were a pledge of the crop. We may not think, that because God doth for precedent sinnings afflict and judge the sinner in some particular kind, therefore he is now secured and discharged for the time to come, as if God did not intend to reckon wi•h him for after sinnings: But this we must know, viz. 1. That infinite and full wrath is the due debt of the transgressing soul; not one or two punishments, but all the testimonies and degrees of wrath. 2. That particular demonstrations of Gods wrath, are no acquittances, but rather certificates of a fuller wrath yet behind. If ye yet shall walk contrary unto me (saith God to the Israelites, Lev. 26. 21.) I ⟨p. 36⟩will punish you seven times more for your sins. q. d. If ye will go on in sinning, I will surely rise higher in punishing, I have greater punishments yet behind; so that if you consider that debt unto sin, which is the full latitude of punishment, it must be, that if the sinner goes on in sin, he shall not thrive, but still become more miserable.
3. No punishment which any sinner hath already felt, is a discharge, 1but onely a part of greater punishment yet due unto him. As the first-fruits were a pledge of the crop. We may not think, that because God doth for precedent sinnings afflict and judge the sinner in some particular kind, therefore he is now secured and discharged for the time to come, as if God did not intend to reckon wi•h him for after sinnings: But this we must know, viz. 1. That infinite and full wrath is the due debt of the transgressing soul; not one or two punishments, but all the testimonies and degrees of wrath. 2. That particular demonstrations of Gods wrath, are no acquittances, but rather certificates of a fuller wrath yet behind. If ye yet shall walk contrary unto me (saith God to the Israelites, Lev. 26. 21