A92856:747
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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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.
1. The change by Conversion is but imperfect in this life; it is a total change, although it changeth us not totally: A converted 1man is sanctified throughout, but not perfectly throughout; when the day breaks, there is a change that one may truly say, the night is past, and yet many degrees of darkness stick in the air; as soon as ever God infuseth grace into the soul, there is immediately a change as to the denomination of the estate, though not as to the consummation of the estate; Paul's estate was a converted ⟨p. 327⟩and changed estate, and yet there was a Law in his Members, as well as a Law in his Mind, Rom. 7. Conversion is a change from the dominion of what was contrary, not from the absolute being of a contrary. Though a Tyrant dwell and stirs in a Kingdom, yet if a lawful Monarch rules, the Kingdom is changed: Many sins are in a converted man still; but if grace doth rule the heart now, which formerly was ruled by sin, that man is a changed man.
1. The change by Conversion is but imperfect in this life; it is a total change, although it changeth us not totally: A converted 1man is sanctifyed throughout, but not perfectly throughout; when the day breaks, there is a change that one may truly say, the night is past, and yet many degrees of darkness stick in the air; as soon as ever God infuseth grace into the soul, there is immediately a change as to the denomination of the estate, though not as to the consummation of the estate; Paul's estate was a converted ⟨p. 327⟩and changed estate, and yet there was a Law in his Members, as well as a Law in his Mind, Rom. 7. Conversion is a change from the dominion of what was contrary, not from the absolute being of a contrary. Though a Tyrant dwell and stirs in a Kingdome, yet if a lawful Monarch rules, the Kingdome is changed: Many sins are in a converted man still; but if grace doth rule the heart now, which formerly was ruled by sin, that man is a changed man.