A92856:632
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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The next Use shall be for Trial or Examination. Since every unconverted man is spiritually dead; let's therefore search our 1hearts, in what a condition they are: Are not many of us yet dead in sins and trespasses? spiritually dead men? There are four Tokens of a man spiritually dead. 1. Unsensibleness: Where there is no life, there is no sense; of all sinners, the unsensible sinner is in the most deadly condition. Tanto pejor quanto insensibiliter, saith Austin. Do what you will to a dead man, he is 2unsensible of it; call to him, he hears not; put the sweetest perfumes to him, he smells not; kick him, cut him, burn him, he feels not; although he be full of loathsomeness, he perceives it not. Now I beseech you mind this Trial; for verily, if spiritual unsensibleness prevail upon you, you are spiritually dead: If spiritual sense be the first evidence of Life, then è contra, spiritual unsensibleness is a sure evidence of Death: And what spiritual sensation is yet wrought in you? There are sins upon sins (mountains upon mountains) in your hearts, the least of them hath been an heavy burden to a living soul, but what hast thou ever felt of thy sinful heart and life? There is in the Ministry of the Gospel, no less than riches of Mercy, freeness of Love, glories of Heaven tendered to you; but what do you perceive in it? Didst thou never yet feel and cry out of a body of Death? O here, here is a dead heart, an ignorant heart, a proud heart, an unbelieving heart, an heart in which there is no good, in which is all evil. Ah poor man, thou art a dead man; no feeling, no complaining, no crying out of thy heart against all those many many vile and notorious sins.
The next Use shall be for Trial or Examination. Since every unconverted man is spiritually dead; let's therefore search our 1hearts, in what a condition they are: Are not many of us yet dead in sins and trespasses? spiritually dead men? There are four Tokens of a man spiritually dead. 1. Ʋnsensibleness: Where there is no life, there is no sense; of all sinners, the unsensible sinner is in the most deadly condition. Tanto pejor quanto insensibiliter, saith Austin. Do what you will to a dead man, he is 2