A92856:642
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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1. What Life that is, wherewith the converted man is invested? 1Sol. I speak only of that Life incident unto man, which is four-fold. 1. Life natural, which is a power to move and act. I count not my life dear unto me, said Paul, Act. 20. 24. All that a man hath he will give for his life, Job 1. This is the Life of Nature, and every man, good or bad, enjoys it. 2. Life connatural; which is a prosperous fruition of our Lives 2with peace, contentment, and comfortable successes, in the external matters and affairs of our life: This also is possibly incident to all sorts of men. 3. Preternatural; which is a death, 3rather than a life: A sinful life, a life acted under the power and motion of sinful lusts. I was alive once, said Paul, Rom. 7. In this respect, wicked and ungodly men only are alive. 4. Supernatural; 4a divine life, a new life, a life in Christ, and from Christ, and to Christ: Of which there are two parts, and they are proper only to converted persons. 1. There is the Life of Grace, which they enjoy in this world: 2. There is the Life of Glory, which they enjoy in the world to come, called often in Scripture, eternal life. The Text speaks of the first of these; The 5converted sinner is invested with the Life of Grace: And this again is branched into the life of, 1. Justification; for when a sinner is justified, he is then in the condition of life: The unjustified man is a dead man, (for he lies under the sentence of death;) and the justified man is a living man, he is passed from death to life; the Lord takes off the sentence of eternal death from him; He shall not die for the sins which he hath committed, for I have pardoned all his sins, and now he shall live, and not die, saith the Lord. 2. Sanctification: When a sinner is sanctified, 6