A92856:96
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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1. Possibility, ut medium, and Infallibility, ut remedium.
2. Betwixt Representation of sin, and Reformation of sin. Straits and miseries are ordinarily the Looking-Glasses, wherein we may see the face of our sinnings, but they are not always the Physic-Glasses, wherein we find the cure of our sins; they are more often an eye-salve, than an heart-salve; they may be a qualm to bring sin to sense, when yet they are not a potion to bring off the sinner from wandering.
2. Betwixt Representation of sin, and Reformation of sin. Straits and miseries are ordinarily the Looking-Glasses, wherein we may see the face of our sinnings, but they are not always the Physick-Glasses, wherein we find the cure of our sins; they are more often an eye-salve, than an heart-salve; they may be a qualm to bring sin to sence, when yet they are not a potion to bring off the sinner from wandring.
3. Again, twixt impediment to sin, and twixt amendment of sin. 1Miseries and straits may be a Dam to stop the Current, when yet they are not like the Prophets salt, effectual to heal the waters. A Lock may stop a Thief, but not alter him. When the the Prophet Elijah met Ahab with a sharp message about Naboth's blo•d and Vineyard, it made him go softly, it cooled his spirit, but did not change it. Miseries more ordinarily (for the present) make men less forward and bold in sin (as Jupiter's Log did quash the noise of the Frogs) when yet they make them not so good as to turn them from sin: They do (like a shower of rain and hail) make the Traveller to stand a while under the Tree, who yet intends to hold on his journey again.