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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 Prodigal hath done with his Estate, and all the pleasures ⟨p. 22⟩of it; now we are to consider him both in his straits, and in the immediate use which he made of them. Touching the former, I shall say little; only you may observe, 1. The occasion of it, a great famine: 2. His sense of it, he began to be in •ant. Touching the latter, you may observe two things, 1. His practice under his straits, And he went and joined himself to a Citizen of that Country: 2. His success or reward, And he sent him into the field to feed swine. By the Citizen generally is expounded, the Devil; by the Country, the World; by Swine, wicked Men. There are two Propositions which I would hence observe, viz.
The Prodigal hath done with his Estate, and all the pleasures ⟨p. 22⟩of it; now we are to consider him both in his streights, and in the immediate use which he made of them. Touching the former, I shall say little; onely you may observe, 1. The occasion of it, a great famine: 2. His sence of it, he began to be in •ant. Touching the latter, you may observe two things, 1. His practice under his streights, And he went and joyned himself to a Citizen of that Countrey: 2. His success or reward, And he sent him into the field to feed swine. By the Citizen generally is expounded, the Divel; by the Countrey, the World; by Swine, wicked Men. There are two Propositions which I would hence observe, viz.
1. That though sin brings men into straits, yet straits do not always bring men from sin. 2. That the further men go on in sin, the worse work they shall find it to prove.