A92856:579
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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These words seem to be an Abridgement of the whole Parable of the Prodigal Child. And they comprehend in them, 1. His natural, sinful, or unconverted condition; [This my son was dead, and was lost.] A natural man is a dead man, and a lost man; either of these expresses a sad misery, but both of them conclude him completely miserable. 2. His supernatural, changed, or converted condition; [and is alive again, and is found.] No man lives, till he be a converted man. Fuit (said Seneca) non vixit; & ab eo tempore censemur, ex quo in Christo renascimur, saith Hierome. 3. The joy, comfort, and delight of that altered condition; [And they began to be merry.] Joy is a drop distilled from Grace; the condition is then comfortable, when it is godly. I begin with the first part, and there with the lost estate of the Prodigal; where observe,
These words seem to be an Abridgement of the whole Parable of the Prodigal Child. And they comprehend in them, 1. His natural, sinfull, or unconverted condition; [This my son was dead, and was lost.] A natural man is a dead man, and a lost man; either of these expresses a sad misery, but both of them conclude him compleatly miserable. 2. His supernatural, changed, or converted condition; [and is alive again, and is found.] No man lives, till he be a converted man. Fuit (said Seneca) non vixit; & ab eo tempore censemur, ex quo in Christo renascimur, saith Hierome. 3. The joy, comfort, and delight of that altered condition; [And they began to be merry.] Joy is a drop distilled from Grace; the condition is then comfortable, when it is godly. I begin with the first part, and there with the lost estate of the Prodigal; where observe,
That every sinful or unconverted man is a lost man. [This my son was lost.] There are two sorts of sinners in Scripture, 1who are styled lost. 1. Finally impenitent: These are irrecoverably lost; lost, and never found. Thus Judas was lost; None of them is lost, but the son of perdition, Joh. 17. 1. And of such the Apostle speaks, If our Gospel be hid, 'tis hid to them that are lost.