A92856:193
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.
4. Whether the cause why the sinner doth shuffle, be inward, or 1whether it be outward; whether it be the strokes of Conscience, or whether it be the stripes of Affliction; he shall neither keep down the one, nor keep off the other, but the inward wounds shall ever and anon be renewed. As all the endeavours of the Mariners could not calm the Sea, until Jonah was cast out of the ship; so until the sinner forsakes his evil ways, there is no escaping the one or the other.
- 1The shuffling sinner shall neither keep down strokes of conscience, nor keep off afflictions.The shuffling sinner shal neither keep down strokes of conscience, nor keep off afflictions.
The Proposition being thus explicated, I shall briefly confirm it, by resolving two things; 1. How it may appear to be true? 2. Why it is so?
Quest. 1. How it may appear to be a truth, that nothing shall ⟨p. 63⟩1avail the shuffling sinner, until he returns from his sins?
- 1How this may appear to be […]How this may appear to be 〈…〉