A92856:705
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This my son was dead, and is alive again.1
These words comprehend in them (if I mistake not) a most exact description of a sinners conversion; both 1. In the general nature of it, that it is a (perfective) change; [Was, and Is; was dead, and is alive:] 2. And in the differential or proper ingredients of it, which are couched in these words [is alive again.] In which three distinguishing ingredients of conversion are espiable; namely, That it is a Change: 1. Very great, and notable: The enlivening of a dead man is so. 2. Very secret and internal; the putting of life into a dead man is so. 3. Very spreading and universal; when a dead man is made alive, it is so. I confess that every one of these particulars doth merit a full and large discourse; but because I desire to open unto you the true nature of conversion, at the first, in as narrow a compass as I can, I shall therefore endeavour to draw all these goodly truths into one little Map, that so you may be the better able to understand and remember them. With your favour, I will ⟨p. 303⟩grasp them into this one Proposition.
These words comprehend in them (if I mistake not) a most exact discription of a sinners conversion; both 1. In the general nature of it, that it is a (perfective) change; [Was, and Is; was dead, and is alive:] 2. And in the differential or proper ingredients of it, which are couched in these words [is alive again.] In which three distinguishing ingredients of conversion are espiable; namely, That it is a Change: 1. Very great, and notable: The inlivening of a dead man is so. 2. Very secret and internal; the puting of life into a dead man is so. 3. Very spreading and universal; when a dead man is made alive, it is so. I confess that every one of these particulars doth merit a full and large discourse; but because I desire to open unto you the true nature of conversion, at the first, in as narrow a compass as I can, I shall therefore endeavour to draw all these goodly truths into one little Map, that so you may be the better able to nderstand and remember them. With your favour, I will