Sedgwick, Obadiah 1600?-1658

Obadiah Sedgwick (1600?-1658) was an English clergyman of presbyterian views, a member of the Westminster Assembly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah_Sedgwick

Brook's "Lives of the Puritans, Volume 3" - 1813 (see page 295)

A biographical history of England: from Egbert the Great to the revolution ..., Volume 3 (1824) By James Granger (see page 337)

Hook's "Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 8" (see page 364)

Neal's "History of the Puritans, or Protestant Noncomformists" (see page 175)

Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 51 - 1897 (see page 183)

Reid's "Memoirs of the Westminster Divines, Volume 2 - 1811 (see page 141)
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Works

He published many sermons between 1639 and 1657.

England's Preservation, OR, A Sermon Discovering the Onely Way to Prevent Destroying Judgements: Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemne Fast, being on May 25, 1642 by Obadiah Sedgwicke, Batchelour in Divinity and Minister of Coggeshall in Essex - 1642
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Besides these and a catechism, he published:

• Christ's Counsell to ... Sardis, 1640.
• The Doubting Beleever, 1641; 1653.
• The Humbled Sinner, 1656; 1660. Read Online PDF Download
• The Fountain Opened, 1657.
• The Riches of Grace, 1657; 1658.

Posthumous were:

• The Shepherd of Israel, 1658.
• The shepherd of Israel; or, God's pastoral care over His people. Delivered in divers sermons on the whole twenty-third Psalm. Together with the doctrine of providence, practically handled on Matth. 10, 29, 30, 31 (1658) - Read Online PDF Download
• The Parable of the Prodigal, 1660.
• The Anatomy of Secret Sins, 1660.
• The Bowels of Tender Mercy, 1661.