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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
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.
2. It adds much to your sin: To commit a sin may be an act of 1infirmity, but to hide and conceal it argues either strong Atheism, that the sinner thinks God regards it not though it be vile; or else perverse wilfulness, he will not humble, he will not turn unto the Lord.
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3. It adds nothing to our safety: Adam hid himself in the thicket, what got he by it? what if you keep the fire close in the thatch? 1You may put gold in a secret place, and perhaps it may be under a safer custody; but he who will hide his sin, doth but put a fair cloth upon a dangerous wound, which now rankles, gangrenes, kills. Of all sins, those do most endanger the soul, for which we are not truly humbled, or do not seriously confess them unto God. Why should God show thee mercy, who wilt not acknowledge thy self guilty? and how can sin but be fiercely reigning, where it is most willingly harboured and concealed?
3. It adds nothing to our safety: Adam hid himself in the thicket, what got he by it? what if you keep the fire close in the thatch? 1You may put gold in a secret place, and perhaps it may be under a safer custody; but he who will hide his sin, doth but put a fair cloth upon a dangerous wound, which now rankles, gangrenes, kills. Of all sins, those do most endanger the soul, for which we are not truly humbled, or do not seriously confess them unto God. Why should God shew thee mercy, who wilt not acknowledge thy self guilty? and how can sin but be fiercely reigning, where it is most willingly harboured and concealed?
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