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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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Do but come back unto me, and all shall be well: Canst thou live without Bread? canst thou live without my Mercy? Mercy shall be thine, if thou wilt return from thy lost and sinful courses. 4. By directing him into the way of coming back: As 1. With mournful confession of his sins. 1Hos. 14. 2. Take with you words, and return unto the Lord; say unto him, Take away iniquity, and receive us graciously. 2. With penitential reformation. Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for ⟨p. 241⟩he will abundantly pardon. 3. With believing application: Thou must go, saith God, to my Son; for he is the way and the life, and he came to seek and to save that which was lost. Seventhly: 2Now, notwithstanding all this, the lost sinner is not perfectly found, and therefore the Lord doth one thing more; he doth with this lost sinner, as the shepherd did with the lost sheep, who took him on his shoulders, and brought him home: So the Lord lays hold on this poor lost soul, by his Almighty Spirit of Grace, and puts into him a returning heart, an other heart, and makes him willing and glad to leave his sinful ways, and to return to himself, and to implore his reconciled favour and acceptance in Jesus Christ: Which being done, now is the lost sinner found indeed; for then, and then only is a lost sinner found, when he, in truth, turns back to God, and enjoys him as his reconciled God in Christ. Jer. 3. 22. Return, ye back-sliding children: Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
Do but come back unto me, and all shall be well: Canst thou live without Bread? canst thou live without my Mercy? Mercy shall be thine, if thou wilt return from thy lost and sinfull courses. 4. By directing him into the way of coming back: As 1. With mournfull confession of his sins. 1