A92856:692
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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That there is an Almighty Power required to convert or change a 1sinner, no less then is requisite to quicken a dead man: (This my Son was dead, and is alive again;) To awaken a man out of sleep, needs no great power; (a word, a call, a cry, a little stirring may do it;) but to quicken a dead man, here calls, and cries, and stirrings will not do it, all the power of Men and Angels will not do it. In Acts 2. 41. you read of three thousand converted at one Sermon. And in Acts 4. 4. of five thousand converted at another Sermon, so many, so quickly converted; certainly the Power that wrought this must be Almighty. Jesus Christ himself must come, and he must cry, and he must cry with a loud voice; Lazarus, come forth, Joh. 11. 43. The Apostle speaks of the exceeding greatness of Gods Power, towards them that believe, and of the working of his mighty Power, Ephes. 1. 19. Even such a Power as God wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, v. 20.
That there is an Almighty Power required to convert or change a 1sinner, no less then is requisite to quicken a dead man: (This my Son was dead, and is alive again;) To awaken a man out of sleep, needs no great power; (a word, a call, a cry, a little stiring may do it;) but to quicken a dead man, here calls, and cries, and stirrings will not do it, all the power of Men and Angels will not do it. In Acts 2. 41. you read of three thousand converted at one Sermon. And in Acts 4. 4. of five thousand converted at another Sermon, so many, so quickly converted; certainly the Power that wrought this must be Almighty. Jesus Christ himself must come, and he must cry, and he must cry with a loud voice; Lazarus, come forth, Joh. 11. 43