A92856:492
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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4. It will be an unspeakable stay unto you in death; you know 1the day of death will shortly overtake every one of us: Here is no abiding City; and what temptations may befall us then, we cannot assure our selves; we know not what Satan or conscience may raise up against us: When our souls are ready to depart, then either to be determinate; God is not yet reconciled to me, (that just God, before whom I must immediately appear to answer, and make accounts;) or to be indeterminate; It may be, I ⟨p. 190⟩am reconciled, it may be I am not, I never had any solid evidence of it; how distracting a thing is this, that the soul, one minute hopes the best, and presently, it doubts the worst? Now I think I shall go to Heaven; and by and by, I fear lest I shall be cast into Hell: But if you had obtained to an evidence of Gods reconciled favour unto you, that the Lord had pardoned all the sins of your life, and had graciously accepted of you in Christ, though death it self appears, you would not much be moved. I know that my redeemer lives, said Job c. 19. And we know, that if our earthly house be dissolved, we have a building of God, an house eternal in the heavens, (saith the Apostle) 2 Cor. 5. 1.
- 1It will be a stay in Death.
5. It is of all the most quickening and forwarding thing to the 1heart, for the performance of all sorts of holy duties: We oftentimes complain, what dull and slow hearts we have to Prayer; were we more assured that God is reconciled to us, we should quickly find hearts more affected, and more enlarged for Prayer; though we be afraid, and fly from an angry and just God, yet we would hye in, and speed unto a reconciled, and gracious God.