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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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the resisting, proud, unreasonable 1stubbornness and enmity of it is subdued, and an holy pliableness, yieldingness, willingness is conveyed into it. Tis rare to behold how the Needle with one touch of the Adamant wheels about, so to behold the admirable inclinations of the will of a sinner, upon one touch of Grace from Christ; not long since deaf, but now hearkening; not long since resisting of Christ to the death, and now following Christ as for life; a little while since shutting the door, and barring it, and now unlocking the door, and opening it; ere while I will not, and now Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? I should be tedious unto you to discourse of the new inclinations and aversions, of the new elections and rejections, of the new purposes and resolutions, of the 2new conformableness and subjections which are plainly evident upon Conversion in the will of the sinner. 4▪ In all the affections of a sinner, which in Conversion are so metamorphosed or changed, that you can hardly persuade your self, this is the man to day, whom you knew yesterday; one affection seems to be changed into another, love into hatred, and hatred into love; joy into grief, boldness into fear; Lately, the desires were, who will show us any good; now the desires are, what shall we do to be saved? Lately, the delights were i• sin, in sensualities, in vain societies; now they are in the favour of God, in Jesus Christ, in pardon of sin, in heavenly communion: Lately, the love was set on that which was most unlovely, now it is set on the most lovely object indeed, Christ is the centre, &c. Lately, the grief was a turbulent Sea for worldly losses, but now it is a running River for sinning against God: Lately, the affections were wings for iniquity, but now they are springs for duty: I may not enlarge; by what you have heard, it may plainly appear 3that true Conversion works an universal change in the sinner: Demonstrations that there is a notable change in Conversion. 1. The person converted, he is made partaker of the Divine Nature, 1 Pet. 1. 4. He is a new Creature,