A92856:580
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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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. 2 Cor. 4. 3. 2. Temporary wanderers; who quantum ad statum presentem are lost, but quoad decretum de futuro shall be found: To these that saying seems to refer, in Luk. 19. 10. The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Again, One may be said to be lost, 1. who is stepped out of the way: Every sinning is a straying, and every straying is a kind of lostness; thus even a converted man is many times lost. I have gone astray (saith David, Psal. 119. 170.) like a lost sheep. 2. Who is not as yet come into the way: Thus the unconverted man is lost. Psal. 58. 3. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they be born. And Psal. 14. 3. They are gone aside. And Rom. 9. 12. They are all gone out of the way.
That every sinfull or unconverted man is a lost man. [This my son was lost.] There are two sorts of sinners in Scripture, 1who are stiled 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.