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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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1. A Sinners digression, or aversion from God. 2. A Penitents regression, or conversion unto God. 3. A Penitents acceptation and favourable entertainment with God.
1. A Sinners digression, or aversion from God. 2. A Penitents regression, or conversion unto God. 3. A Penitents acceptation and favorable entertainment with God.
In the first, you see the sinners going from God to misery; In the second, you see him returning unto himself by true penitency; In the third, you see God returning to him in mercy: In the first you see him losing himself, in the second you see him finding himself, in the third you see God finding of him. Sin loses us, repentance finds us, and then God owns us.
I begin with the Sinners digression or aversion from God, which is set forth unto us in v. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. under the similitude of a young man, who would have all in his own hands, and so he left his Father, took his pleasure in Travels, soon consumed all, and shortly brought himself to extreme necessity and misery. This is the literal part of the Parable: But the Moral part comprehends (if I mistake not) these Propositions.
I begin with the Sinners d•gression or aversion from God, which is set forth unto us in v. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. under the similitude of a young man, who would have all in his own hands, and so he left his Father, took his pleasure in Travels, soon consumed all, and shortly brought himself to extreme necessity and misery. This is the literal part of the Parable: But the Moral part comprehends (if I mistake not) these Propositions.