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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse
Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse wherein Christs parable of the lost son found is opened and applied as it was delivered in sundry sermons / by Samuel Willard ...
printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. His turning of these favours into snare and provocations of their lusts, to allure and draw them after them: There are many lusts in the heart of man and these outward mercies are suitable matter for them to wor• upon: and when God lets it be so; yea, judicially orders it to be so; when he gives them their table to be a snare, their wealth a snare their health and strength a snare, their wi•• and knowledge a snare; when pride, profaneness, and sensuality are promoved and nourished ⟨p. 35⟩by these things, then God gives men up to their own hearts lust, and lets them walk on in their own ways, Psal. 81. 12. He puts their Portion into their own hand, and lets them go whither they will, and do what they please with it.
3. His turning of these favours into snare and provocations of their lusts, to allure and draw them after them: There are many lusts in the heart of man and these outward mercies are sutable matter for them to wor• upon: and when God lets it be so; yea, judicially orders it to be so; when he gives them their table to be a snare, their wealth a snare their health and strength a snare, their wi•• and knowledge a snare; when pride, prophaneness, and sensuality are promoved and nourished ⟨p. 35⟩by these things, then God gives men up to their own hearts lust, and lets them walk on in their own wayes, Psal. 81. 12. He puts their Portion into their own hand, and lets them go whither they will, and do what they please with it.
2. To answer some doubts which may here arise;