A92856:757
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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And they began to be merry.1
These words are as the Banquet after the Feast; they are the close, and the reckoning that is brought in upon the lost Son being brought home. The case is wonderfully altered with him, (all is altered, when the sinner is altered) when he was wandering from his Father, he ran up and down the Country, and wasted all his estate among Harlots; he shifted himself to his very skin, and out he is turned amongst the Swine, and no man regarded him; the poor wretch wanted Father, and House, and Clothes, and all Comforts, and was upon his last Legs, at the very point of starving and famishing. But now being found and returned home, all mercies come in unto him; there's a Father to embrace him, and an House to entertain him, and Raiment to clothe him, and Friends to welcome him, and a feast to rejoice him. [And they began to be merry:] As formerly you have had the nature of Conversion, so in these, you have the fruit of Conversion. When Jesus Christ was born, there was great joy; and when a sinner is born again, hereupon also ariseth great joy. The Proposition on which I intend to insist, is this:
These words are as the Banquet after the Feast; they are the close, and the reckoning that is brought in upon the lost Son being brought home. The case is wonderfully altered with him, (all is altered, when the sinner is altered) when he was wandring from his Father, he ran up and down the Country, and wasted all his estate among Harlots; he shifted himself to his very skin, and out he is turned amongst the Swine, and no man regarded him; the poor wretch wanted Father, and House, and Cloaths, and all Comforts, and was upon his last Leggs, at the very point of starving and famishing. But now being found and returned home, all mercies come in unto him; there's a Father to embrace him, and an House to entertain him, and Raiment to cloath him, and Friends to welcome him, and a feast to rejoyce him. [And they began to be merry:] As formerly you have had the nature of Conversion, so in these, you have the fruit of Conversion. When Jesus Christ was born, there was great joy; and when a sinner is born again, hereupon also ariseth great joy. The Proposition on which I intend to insist, is this: