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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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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 2are all of them living principles; and alter all the soul, and incline it spiritually: So that the man who cared not for God, nor Christ, nor Grace, nor holy Duties heretofore; now his soul bends to these, and he minds these, and he is never better than when he is thinking of God, and mourning for his sins, and thirsting for Christ, and praying to God, and hearing of the ⟨p. 268⟩Word of God; this is his desire, and this is his delight. 3. There is a power in these principles of spiritual life. A power 3against his sins; so that now he can hate them, and say, What have I to do any more with Idols? Get ye hence. And a power in his affections; so that now he is able to love God above all, and able to fear God, and not displease him willingly. And a power in his will; so that now he is able to come to Christ, and cleave to Christ, as his only happiness. And a power to spiritual actions; so that he is now able to hear and understand, to pray and wrestle, to pray and believe, to believe and repent.
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 Eliah did with the Shunamites dead child; who lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon the childs mouth, and his eyes upon the childs eyes, and his hands upon the childs 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