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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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2. But suppose thou shouldest repent, yet must thy sins be bitter unto thee; though thou mayest believe with joy, yet thou must repent with sorrow: Repentance is a mourning weed, a sad lamentation, a reformation with tears.
3. And believe me, thy penitential work will be the more sour, by how much the more sweet thy sinnings have been. In Physic (if I mistake not) they hold, that Dulcia cito vertuntur in bilem, the sweet meats are most easily turned into bitter choler; so shalt thou find experimentally, thy sweetest sins to prove (even if thou doest repent) thy sharpest burdens and griefs. Davids adultery cost him more tears, then any sin of his that we read of.
3. And believe me, thy penitential work will be the more sowr, by how much the more sweet thy sinnings have been. In Physick (if I mistake not) they hold, that Dulcia cito vertuntur in bilem, the sweet meats are most easily turned into bitter choler; so shalt thou find experimentally, thy sweetest sins to prove (even if thou doest repent) thy sharpest burthens and griefs. Davids adultery cost him more tears, then any sin of his that we read of.
A third Use shall be of Direction: If any man of us hath been enticed, that we have taken the sweet bait, that sin hath ensnared 1us by its pleasures, my advice is, Let him vomit up the morsels again, and no more to embrace the sin for the pleasure, but to abhor the pleasure for the sins sake. The rules which I would prescribe, are these,
A third Use shall be of Direction: If any man of us hath been enticed, that we have taken the sweet bait, that sin hath insnared