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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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Quest. 2. How it may be evidenced, that the converted man is 1thus made spiritually alive. Sol. Thus, 1. Every converted man hath a living union with Jesus Christ; he is brought into 2fellowship with Christ. Now Jesus Christ is a living Head, and all his members are living Members. 1 Joh. 5. 12. He that hath the Son, hath life. And Joh. 6. 51. I am the living bread, if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. […] 2. All true grace is of a living nature: False grace is a dead thing, it 3hath no life, and can give no life; but true grace is living. True •aith is a living faith, I live by the faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2. 20. And true hope is a living hope; 1 Pet. 1. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope. 3. Every converted man is the child of the living God; he is born of the Spirit, who is the Spirit of life. 4God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; and God as a Father never begets any dead Children: All his children are begot after his own image; they are partakers of the Divine nature, and that is a living nature. […] 4. The converted man lives the rest 5of his life unto God. 1. Pet. 3. 2. None of us liveth to himself; for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, Rom. 14. 8. Can he possibly live unto the Lord, until he be made alive by the Lord? What glory can God get by the life of a dead sinner? The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day, said Hezekiah,