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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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Secondly, The utmost disappointment, of that utmost design, And no man gave unto him. According to either of these, there are two Propositions observable by us; viz. That a sinner will go through, and try the utmost extremities and ways ere he will ⟨p. 45⟩return from his sins. 2. That nothing shall avail the shuffling and trying sinner, until he doth return from his sins. When the Lord forsakes a man, nothing avails to help a man.
Secondly, The utmost disappointment, of that utmost design, And no man gave unto him. According to either of these, there are two Propositions observable by us; viz. That a sinner will go through, and try the utmost extremities and wayes ere he will ⟨p. 45⟩return from his sins. 2. That nothing shall avail the shuffling and trying sinner, untill he doth return from his sins. When the Lord forsakes a man, nothing avails to help a man.
That a sinner will try all ways, and go through the utmost extremities, ere he will return from his sins. The Prodigal here 1spends all, yet he returns not; he is pinched with famine, yet he returns not; he joins himself with a Citizen, and he sends him to feed Swine, yet doth he not return: if he could have got but the husks which the Swine did eat; husks are but poor, empty, light things, miserable nourishment; but if he could have made any shift, any way to have supported himself, he would not have returned unto his Father. Thus you read of Pharaoh, that though there were a Climax of plagues upon him, and wonders of ruin upon his Land, and Cattle, and Servants, rising like a Tide and Flood, yet till it came to his first-born, and the next stroke was to reach his own life, he would not obey the Voice of the Lord in letting of Israel go; like obstinate defendants in a City, which will lose one Outwork after another, and suffer the Undermining of their Walls, ere they will come to terms of Capitulation. So we read of the Israelites before the Captivity, how extremely they did endure a very succession of Judgments, and variety of strange punishments before they would return?