Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse

Name: Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse
Author: Samuel Willard

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 ...

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684

[6], 391, [1] p. · 92k words · Wing W2285 · ESTC R40698

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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 10 › DOCT. I. The natural man, whiles he is wandering from God, is beside…: DOCT. I. The natural man, whiles he is wandering from God, is beside himself.Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 10 › DOCT. I. The natural man, whiles he is wandring from God, is beside…: DOCT. I. The natural man, whiles he is wandring from God, is beside himself.

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9. Correction or punishment will not reclaim them, and bring them to better frame, but rather make them more mad, Pro. 17. 10. A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. An hundred, nay, if it were a thousand, his folly would remain with him; yea, you may separate his soul from his body, but not him from his folly; although you reduce him to atoms, yet his foolishness abides still, Prov. 27. 22. Thus are unregenerate men so riveted to their sin, it is so intrinsically seated in them, and diffused through them, that all the awful judgments of God make no impression upon them to reclaim them; God may smite till he is weary of smiting, but they are as bad as ever and worse, Isa. 1. 5. Why should ye be smitten any more, ye will revolt more and more: Like Ahaz, in their affliction they will sin more than ever.

9. Correction or punishment will not reclaim them, and bring them to better frame, but rather make them more mad, Pro. 17. 10. A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. An hundred, nay, if it were a thousand, his folly would remain with him; yea, you may separate his soul from his body, but not him from his folly; although you reduce him to atomes, yet his foolishness abides still, Prov. 27. 22. Thus are unregenerate men so rivetted to their sin, it is so intrinsecally seated in them, and diffused through them, that all the awful judgments of God make no impression upon them to reclaim them; God may smite till he is weary of smiting, but they are as bad as ever and worse, Isa. 1. 5. Why should ye be smitten any more, ye will revolt more and more: Like Ahaz, in their affliction they will sin more than ever.

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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse

DOCT. II. God, in order to the conversion of a sinner, first works upon the understanding.

SERMON XI.

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DOCT. II. God, in order to the conversion of a sinner, first works upon the understanding.

SERMON XI.