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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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the Lord ⟨p. 64⟩sent a wind and storm, which did never leave working, till it purged Jonah out of the ship. So that strength, and secure defence, unto which the sinner betakes himself, God doth as it were besiege him therein, and never leaves, until he hath demolished it, and brought him to terms of capitulation afresh. 5. By making his sinful contrivances to prove his stronger and harder fetters; that 1that way, and that comfort which the sinner took up as a shadow from the storm and heat, hath (like some hired Soldiers in the day of battle) wheeled about, and become the strongest snare, and bitterest burden. As David complained of some of his friends, that they did prove his most enraged and cutting enemies; Or as the Prophet speaks, The men of thy Confederacy have brought thee even to the border; the men that were at peace with thee, have deceived thee; they that did eat thy bread, have laid a wound under thee. Obad. 7. So the Lord hath so over-ruled it, that he hath driven the sinner to a miserable stand, even when he hath pursued the ways (as he thought) of his own contentment; in the pursuing whereof, he hath only followed a smiling River, into a most unquiet and troublesome Sea. 6. By a most perfect beleaguering (as it were) of a 2projecting sinner: hedging up all his ways with thorns, or immuring of him as in a Castle, Hos. 2. and shutting of him up, that there shall be no going out or coming in.
the Lord ⟨p. 64⟩sent a wind and storm, which did never leave working, till it purged Jonah out of the ship. So that strength, and secure defence, unto which the sinner betakes himself, God doth as it were besiege him therein, and never leaves, until he hath demolished it, and brought him to terms of capitulation afresh. 5. By making his sinfull contrivances to prove his stronger and harder fetters; that 1