A92856:619
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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Without saith it is impossible to please God, Hebr. 11. 6.
2. But let us proceed further, and search what Reasons may be produced to demonstrate the Assertion: That the natural, or 1unconverted man is spiritually dead, and as to spirituals altogether dead; Thus then, 1. He who hath no Communion at all with 2the principles of spiritual life, is (in a spiritual sense) altogether dead; for where there is no principle of life, there cannot be any thing but death: Tolle animam, tolle vitam; but the impenitent and unconverted sinner, hath no communion with any one principle of spiritual life: Therefore, &c. There is a twofold principle of this life. 1. A primitive conjunction with God, in the estate of Innocency; but this is lost. 2. A renewed Conjunction with God by Christ; but yet this is not attained to by an unconverted sinner. It is a confessed truth, that Jesus Christ is the Author of spiritual life to the sinner: He that hath the Son, hath life, and he that hath not the Son, hath not life, Joh. 5. 17. And the sinner hath it partly by Faith, which taking Christ, takes life from him; by the Spirit of Regeneration, which renews, and makes him alive; but the unconverted sinner, hath neither the one, nor the other; had he either, he were then converted.
2. But let us proceed further, and search what Reasons may be produced to demonstrate the Assertion: That the natural, or 1unconverted man is spiritually dead, and as to spirituals altogether dead; Thus then, 1. He who hath no Communion at all with 2