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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I have finished the first Proposition out of these words, viz. 1That the unconverted man is a dead man: I now proceed to the second, which is this;
That every converted man is a living man. When the sinner 1is converted, he is then made alive. Conversion is a Sinners Life. So the Text, This my son is alive again. It is reported of Similis, Captain of the Guard to the Emperor Adrian, that he retired from the Court into the Country seven years before his death, and caused this to be written on his Tomb, Hi• jacet Similis cu•us aet as multoru• annorum •uit, ipse septem duntaxat annos vixit: For so many years only was he converted. We count the length of our lives from the time of our birth, and we must count the life of our souls from the time of our new birth, said Hierom. It is frequent in Scripture, to stile converted persons living persons, or persons made alive, Rom. 6. 13. Yield your selves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead. Chap. 8. v. 10. If Christ be in you, the spirit is life because of ⟨p. 260⟩righteousness. Gal. 2. 20. I live, saith Paul. Col. 2. 13. You who were dead in your sins hath he quickened. For the advantageous discussion of this Point, I shall briefly open unto you, 1. What Life that is, which the converted sinner attains unto? 2. How it may appear that he is invested with such a Life? and why? 3. Then the useful Application of all this unto our selves.