A92856:52
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.
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.
That Sin is a departing from God.
The young Prodigal, he must leave his Father, he must be 1gone, what doth it imply, but the sinner is a departer? Sinning is a departing; we leave God when we betake our selves to a course of sinning. Thus is it styled in Scripture, Isaiah. 1. 4. Ah sinful Nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters; they have forsaken the Lord, they have gone away backward. Here sin is called a forsaking the Lord, and a going away, and a revolting, ye will revolt more and more: which is a falling off untrustily from God. Jer. 2. 14. They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters.