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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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4. Lastly, true Conversion is an universal change: When 1a dead man is quickened, the soul is not only infused, but also diffused, it is tota in toto, & tota in qualibet part, the whole made alive; so is it in true Conversion, that grace which converts a sinner, doth change all the sinner, every faculty of the soul for the quality of it, and every member of the body, for the spiritual use of it: Therefore, converting ⟨p. 309⟩grace is compared to the Light which runs through all the body of the air, every part whereof is enlightened; and it is compared to Leaven which spreads and insinuates it self into every part of the Lump. You cannot dip into any leaf of this Book, into any parcel of a converted man, but you shall find a divine and spiritual change, a spirit of grace on it. He is sanctified throughout, in soul, spirit and body: I confess, it were a work worthy of the deepest study of the exactest Minister to find out, and deliver two things unto us: 1. One is, the Minimum quod sic, the least breath or life of converting grace. 2. Another is, The specific operations of converting grace, in all the faculties of the soul, so that one may say safely, this faculty is changed, and that faculty is changed by grace and nothing else. This I make no question of, that converting grace doth make the whole man alive. For 1. It is a new and renewing quality. 2. It is of a diffusive virtue, being a good in Genere optimorum. 3. It must be Co-extensive with sin, which hath perverted the whole man: But yet to set out its changing work in every faculty of the sou•, I cannot undertake it in the exquisiteness thereof; yet if you will favourably accept of my endeavours, I shall attempt towards it, that so you may 2the better conceive of that universal change wrought in a sinner upon his Conversion.
4. Lastly, true Conversion is an universal change: When 1a dead man is quickned, the soul is not only infused, but also diffused, it is tota in toto, & tota in qualibet parte, the whole made alive; so is it in true Conversion, that grace which converts a sinner, doth change all the sinner, every faculty of the soul for the quality of it, and every member of the body, for the spiritual use of it: Therefore, converting