A92856:707
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 true Conversion is a change, a very great, and inward, 1and universal change. You plainly see four things in this Assertion which offer themselves to our consideration. 1. True Conversion is a change; (was dead and is alive;) certainly here is a change. Ego sum ego, said the Harlot, here was no Conversion. Ego non sum ego, answered the young man; here was conversion, for here was a change; There may be a was, and an is, without a change. Christ was God, and is God, Revel. 1. 8. And in many men the was, and the is, are without a change; They were ignorant, and are ignorant still; they were filthy, and are filthy still; Rev. 22. 11. But if a man be converted, the was, and the is, are different, they are changed: I was a Persecutor, said Paul, but being converted he is not so; such were some of you, said Paul of the Corinthians, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. Now when I say, that Conversion is a change, you must know that there is a two-fold Change: One is, Substantial, which alters the substance of man, as in Generation, and in Corruption, of which the Philosophers speak: Conversion is no such change; the soul and body of a man remains the self same substance before and after Conversion: It was the same Paul who Was a Persecutor, and Is a Preacher of Christ: As in the Sacrament, it is the same Bread for substance after Consecration, which it was before Consecration; So is it the same man, for the Philosophical substance, before and after conversion.
That true Conversion is a change, a very great, and inward, 1and universal change. You plainly see four things in this Assertion which offer themselves to our consideration. 1. True Conversion is a change; (was dead and is alive;) certainly here is a change. Ego sum ego, said the Harlot, here was no Conversion. Ego non sum ego, answered the young man; here was conversion, for here was a change; There may be a was, and an is, without a change. Christ was God, and is God, Revel. 1. 8. And in many men the was, and the is, are without a change; They were ignorant, and are ignorant still; they were filthy, and are filthy still;