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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. The long and exceeding complaints of God concerning sinners: 1That he is forced still to bear with them; insomuch that their continual sinnings have grown (as it were exceeding of Gods patience) too much for God to bear any longer; Amos 2. 13. I am pressed under you, as a Cart is pressed that is full of Sheaves. Jer. 15. 6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord; thou art gone backward, therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee; I am weary of repenting. Isa. 43. 24. Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins; thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
- 1By the long and exceeding complaints of God concerning sinners.
4. The Non-plusses (if I may so phrase it) that wicked and obstinate persons, by continuing in their sins, have put God unto: 1Hos. 6. 4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. This is an Anthropopathy, a speech after the manner of men. Not that God doth not know what to do; but he expresseth himself after the manner of a person who hath used all the ways and means to reclaim another, and yet the other, though sometimes cunningly he pretends a reformation, falls away again. Now, saith a father, such and such ways have I used, and such ways, and nothing doth avail; my son still is wicked, he runs on from evil to worse; I know not what to do with him, I can think of no course, &c. So,