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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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In a word, this life is nothing else but the Grace of the Spirit, regenerating, and renewing the whole soul of a sinner. It is saving light set up in the Mind, and saving wisdom set up in the Judgment, and saving grace set up in the Will and Affections, which alter the old sinful nature in man, and are a new spiritual inclination to matters that are spiritual, yea, and a new spiritual ability or power in the whole soul of man to work that is spiritual: Whereas the Understanding could not know the things of God, now it is enabled to know them, and to admire them, and to study them: whereas the Will was both unable to good, and unwilling to good, and only set on what was evil; now, being quickened by Grace, it is drawn off from that affectionate inclination to evil, and it is bent and inclined, and in some measure enabled to desire Christ, to love Jesus Christ, to fear God, to obey God, and to walk with God: And when this comes into the heart of a sinner, he is said to be alive again.
In a word, this life is nothing else but the Grace of the Spirit, regenerating, and renewing the whole soul of a sinner. It is saving light set up in the Mind, and saving wisdome set up in the Judgment, and saving grace set up in the Will and Affections, which alter the old sinfull nature in man, and are a new spiritual inclination to matters that are spiritual, yea, and a new spiritual ability or power in the whole soul of man to work that is spiritual: Whereas the Understanding could not know the things of God, now it is enabled to know them, and to admire them, and to study them: whereas the Will was both unable to good, and unwilling to good, and only set on what was evil; now, being quickned by Grace, it is drawn off from that affectionate inclination to evil, and it is bent and inclined, and in some measure enabled to desire Christ, to love Jesus Christ, to fear God, to obey God, and to walk with God: And when this comes into the heart of a sinner, he is said to be alive again.
Shall I draw out my thoughts of this Subject more clearly unto 1you? Take me then thus. When any sinner is made spiritually alive, 1. Jesus Christ applies himself to the Soul, and he breaths into it the Spirit of Life. He doth with a poor dead soul, much like as Elijah did with the Shunamites dead child; who lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon the child's mouth, and his eyes upon the child's eyes, and his hands upon the child's hands; and he stretched himself upon the child, and the flesh of the child waxed warm: So the Lord Jesus applies himself by his Spirit to the soul of a sinner, (to all the soul of a sinner,) and works mightily in it, producing knowledge in a blind mind, and feeling in an hard heart, and faith in an unbelieving spirit, and all his Graces in the whole Soul. 2. Which gracious principles