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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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2. For Comparison of the misery of a sinful, with the happiness 1of a penitent and converted condition; that this likewise is a stepped and way to Repentance, may be thus proved:
2. For Comparison of the misery of a sinful, with the happiness 1of a penitent and converted condition; that this likewise is a stept and way to Repentance, may be thus proved:
- 1Comparison of the misery of a sinful, with the happiness of a penitent condition, a step to Repentance. For, This breeds sound Judgment of things that differ.
1. This Comparison breeds sound Judgment in us of things that differ: All corrupt works are rooted in a corrupted mind; like ill rheums in the Head, which come from ill qualities in the Stomach; or rather like some ill diseases and irregularities in the Lambs, Arms and Feet, which come from unsound humours in the Brain. So it is in this case, men go on confidently in sin, and are taken excessively with those poor baits of sensual pleasure and profit, as if there were no other pleasure, delight, gain, acquirable, or to be found, but in the ways and service of sin; as they in hell, think there is no other heaven: Or as foolish children, who conceive no other sport or delight like a rattle or dirting their hands, &c. But now, when by a comparison and true survey of either estate, it shall appear unto the soul that all these sinful pleasures and profits are but stolen waters, and at the best but for a season, they will end bitterly; and on the contrary, That Repentance from sin makes way for the most precious fountains of the most living comforts; that it enables a man for a nearer conjunction with the truest happiness, and fullness of most infinite goodness, and lets in to such pleasures and joys which pass all understanding, &c. Now the soul is reduced to a right judgment, and begins to contemn those false, vain, deluding temptations by sin, and is carried off to another course or way which will afford the real, solid, superlative advantages in happiness and comfort, &c.