A92856:624
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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4. To me, those spiritual Promises which God makes, of giving 1a spiritual being and life, do abundantly clear, that man is dead: As, of pouring forth the Spirit of Grace, giving his Spirit, taking away the heart of Stone, and giving the heart of Flesh, of giving Knowledge, Love, Fear, &c. Such kinds of Promises imply three things: 1. Our total want and need; 2. Gods undertaking to bestow them; 3. A free and total donation of them to us on Gods part.
- 1The promises of giving a spiritual being and life.
5. S. Austin useth the Duty of Prayer, to prove this Assertion 1against the Pelagians; Petenda à Deo bona omnia, ergo nihil boni ex nobis possumus. And in an Epistle to Vitalis, he saith, Prorsus non oramus Deum, sed orare nos singimus si nos ipsos non illum credimus facere quod oramus.
- 1The duty of, Prayer.
6. I will add but one Argument more, viz. That man is totally dead, (quantum ad spiritualia,) who cannot so much as 1prepare himself, no not remotely, no not in any degree unto the life of Grace: But, the Unconverted man cannot (virtute propria, and without supernatural aid,) in the least degree prepare himself, &c. for, without that aid, he cannot desire deliverance out of his sinful estate, nor mourn over it, nay not feel it, nay not spiritually know it.