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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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Doct. That, no not the kindest expressions of mercy do silence a 1truly penitential heart, from an humble confession of sin; Kindest mercies draw out humblest confessions: The Father pities, meets, embraces, kisseth this penitential Prodigal. What doth he? rise up and slight all that hath been evil? Oh no! mercy melts him down, and he confesseth with tears, Father I have sinned, &c. q. d. What is this, that thou shouldst so easily, so freely, so mercifully behold so sinful, so unworthy a wretch as I have been? As David, when God declared unto him the intentions of his further mercies, for him and his posterity: He sate before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto? So is it with the true penitent, upon the Declaration of pardoning and accepting mercy. Now, O Lord God, who am I? I, who have done so wickedly, yet to be remembered so graciously? The same you find in Paul, who, though he received a testimony of his pardon and acceptance, by a messenger graciously dispatched from Jesus Christ himself, Acts 9. 17. Yet he doth most frequently, and humbly acknowledge and confess the kinds and greatness of his former transgressions.
Doct. That, no not the kindest expressions of mercy do silence a 1truly penitential heart, from an humble confession of sin; Kindest mercies draw out humblest confessions: The Father pities, meets, embraces, kisseth this penitential Prodigal. What doth he? rise up and slight all that hath been evil? Oh no! mercy melts him down, and he confesseth with tears, Father I have sinned, &c. q. d. What is this, that thou shouldst so easily, so freely, so m•rcifully behold so sinful, so unworthy a wretch as I have been? As David, when God declared unto him the intentions of his further mercies, for him and his posterity: He sate before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto? So is it with the true penitent, upon the Declaration of pardoning and accepting mercy. Now, O Lord God, who am I? I, who have done so wickedly, yet to be remembred so graciously? The same you find in Paul, who, though he received a testimony of his pardon and acceptance, by a messenger graciously dispatched from Jesus Christ himself,