A92856:188
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I I. Now I proceed to the Second thing, which is, The final 1disappointment of the Prodigals assays and designs, in these words, [And no man gave unto him.] Whence I observe,
- 1The final disappointment of all the Prodigals designs. Doct. 2. Nothing shall avail the shuffling sinner, till he return, but God will disappoint all his projects. Some things premised. This is meant of a sinner whom God intends to convert.The final disappointment of all the Prodigals designs. Doct. 2. Nothing shall avail the shuffling sinner, till he return, but God will disappoint all his p•ojects. Some things premised. This is meant• of a sinner whom God intends to convert.
That nothing shall avail the shuffling sinner, until he doth turn from his sins; but God will disappoint all his projects, batter down all his confidences, frustrate all his expectations, drive him out of all his harbours, and overthrow all the means and ways which he flies unto. Before I confirm this Assertion, let me premise a few particulars, that so you may rightly conceive the scope of it. Thus then.
1. I intend the Assertion, of a sinner whom God doth intend to convert; others he may leave to prosper in their imaginations: For you see it raised from the disappointment of a Prodigal, one whose conversion at length attended his manifold afflictions, and as manifold contrivances to keep up his sinful conversation: though such a person knows not it, nor thinks on it, yet God is secretly against him, and thrusts him off from all the Cities of Refuge, unto which he flies; which way soever he turns, and what course soever he applies himself unto, whatsoever vessel he puts himself into, it shall be like Jonah's ship, which will not be quiet until he be cast out, until he doth come to consider of his doings, and return.