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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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A second moral observation is this, that A sinner doth voluntarily, of his own accord, depart from God. Here the Prodigal 1makes choice of his own way and course, and desires to be left to himself, and to take his own course. God compels no man to a sinful course, nor is he the cause thereof, nor can Satan compel the heart. A man in this regard is said to tempt and entice himself, and with Ahab to sell himself to work wickedness.
A second moral observation is this, that A sinner doth voluntarily, of his own accord, depart from God. Here the Prodigal 1makes choice of his own way and course, and desires to be left to himself, and to take his own course. God compels no man to a sinfull course, nor is he the cause thereof, nor can Satan compel the heart. A man in this regard is said to tempt and entice himself, and with Ahab to sell himself to work wickedness.
- 1D. 2. A sinner doth voluntarily depart from God.
And therefore, The sinner is utterly inexcusable before God, 1his mouth is for ever stopped, his sin and perdition is of himself. God is cleared in Judgment, who punishes the wicked who is the actor, contriver, and sole cause of his own sinnings. Take any sinner who delights himself in a way of wickedness, why! he is voluntary in it: 'Tis true, in dispute he pretends an insufficiency or inability, but the real cause of his sinning is his own will, for he loves Darkness rather then Light, and had rather serve his Lusts then God; he makes choice of them before God, as the multitude did of Barabbas before Christ; and when Life and Death, God and Sin are propounded, yea, and that with the true rewards from the one, and severe wrath from the other, yet he like Issachar bows down under the burden, and loves rest; he had rather go on in his sins, and will not leave them: And therefore we alone are guilty of our own blood, God is innocent as well as just, our condemnation is but a due guerdon or payment for our own voluntary departings from God.