A92856:248
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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thus if we do, we shall find more strength in our Repentance, more peace in our Consciences, more sweetness in the Sacrament, more confidence towards Christ, and may comfortably expect the pardon of our sins, and salvation by his blood.
thus if we do, we shall find more strength in our Repentance, more peace in our Consciences, more sweetness in the Sacrament, more confidence towards Christ, and may comfortably expect the pardon of our sins, and salvation by his bloud.
The third and last Use shall be for Exhortation, to set upon 1these two works of Consideration and Comparison. Here let me propound two things unto you, respecting the practical exercise of them. Qu. 1. What is required to enable a person rightly to consider, and to compare? &c. I conceive thus. 1. There must be knowledge: Right Consideration and Comparison, are works of an enlightened mind; to understand the proper nature and distinction of things, necessarily requires knowledge: For Ignorance can neither consider nor distinguish; therefore study the Word, and other Books, to understand what objects are, of which you are to consider. 2. There must be some Wisdom: For every Understanding cannot find out things, 2nor is able to make their differences of vileness or excellency; as David said of the Works of God, that a brutish man understands them not, &c. Psal. 92. 5, 6. that we say ⟨p. 86⟩of persons only enlightened, That if they have not spiritual Wisdom, to compare things, or to consider of them, they will never, by the evidence of the vileness of Sin, or excellency of Grace, be drawn to Repentance. 3. There must be Retiredness, or Sequestration: You must separate your selves, as Solomon 3