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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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Paul complains for want of power; what then may an unconverted man do! By all this (I think) it manifestly appears, That the unconverted man is spiritually dead, because Original Sin reigns in him; (if in any, then in him;) and where Original Sin reigns, there is a total privation or absence of all spiritual Life, and total corruption or presence of spiritual Death in the Soul.1
Paul complains for want of power; what then may an unconverted man do! By all this (I think) it manifectly appears, That the unconverted man is spiritually dead, because Original Sin reigns in him; (if in any, then in him;) and where Original Sin reigns, there is a total privation or absence of all spiritual Life, and total corruption or presence of spiritual Death in the Soul.1
- 1The terms used in Scripture to express conversion.
3. The Terms used in Scripture to express a sinners conversion, do seem sufficiently weighty, to prove, That before his conversion ⟨p. 258⟩he was spiritually dead: For it is set forth sometimes, By the Resurrection of the dead; Ephes. 5. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead. By the Generation of a person. Of his own good will begat he us with the word of truth, Jam. 1. 18. By Creation. 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Now observe; if Conversion be a Resurrection, a spiritual Resurrection, then the soul before Conversion was spiritually dead; if Conversion be a Regeneration, then a new life is brought into the soul, which it totally wanted before: If Conversion be a Creation, and the converted man qua talis be a new creature, then he had no spiritual being before. If spiritual Life be a creature only of Christ's making, then, &c.