A92856:799
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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They have a thousand hells and arrows of guilt sticking in their hearts; they have souls full of plague sores, the deadly strokes of death, the restless motions of evil spirits. 2. They carry a roaring Lion in their breasts; I mean, an evil, accusing, smiting, wounding, racking, condemning Conscience; which if it once awake, it will tear the caul of their hearts, and crush them with the flames of unavoidable, unsupportable and continual wrath. 3. They have no City of Refuge open to their succour, no land or shore, no place to cast anchor, no portion in Christ; and therefore the Law of God stands in full force against their souls, and under its curse they lie, and at that Bar of Justice must they be tried. 4. They end in an éternal and perfect Hell. 5. Take them at their best, God is their Enemy, (they never yet made peace with him,) and all their outward blessings are steeped in gall, and drenched in Wormwood; as their sorrows, so their blessings are distributed in wrath.
They have a thousand hells and arrows of guilt sticking in their hearts; they have souls full of plague sores, the deadly strokes of death, the restless motions of evil spirits. 2. They carry a roaring Lion in their brests; I mean, an evil, accusing, smiting, wounding, racking, condemning Conscience; which if it once awake, it will tear the caul of their hearts, and crush them with the flames of unavoidable, unsupportable and continual wrath. 3. They have no City of Refuge open to their succour, no land or shore, no place to cast anchor, no portion in Christ; and therefore the Law of God stands in full force against their souls, and under its curse they lie, and at that Bar of Justice must they be tried. 4. They end in an éternal and perfect Hell. 5. Take them at their best, God is their Enemy, (they never yet made peace with him,) and all their outward blessings are steeped in gall, and drenched in Wormwood; as their sorrows, so their blessings are distributed in wrath.
2. Many converted persons are not really sad and uncomfortable, 1but only seem so to the mean and childish opinions of vain men,