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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.
SERMON XV.
Thus of the Prodigals resolution to return:
THus of the Prodigals resolution to return:
2. His purpose how to demean himself on his return follows to be considered: in which are shadowed out to us divers necessary concomitants of true Repentance, or qualifications wherein the truth of it doth appear; and serve to instruct us in the true and genuine working of saving Grace, to the humbling of the soul, and rendering him vile in his own eyes: And this is in two things, viz. his Confession, and his Petition: In the one he makes himself as bad as he can be, as little, as low, and sinful; in the other he yields himself to be what ever his father would make him. To begin with the first:
2. His purpose how to demean himself on his return follows to be considered: in which are shadowed out to us divers necessary concomitants of true Repentance, or qualifications wherein the truth of it doth appear; and serve to instruct us in the true and genuine working of saving Grace, to the humbling of the soul, and rendring him vile in his own eyes: And this is in two things, viz. his Confession, and his Petition: In the one he makes himself as bad as he can be, as little, as low, and sinful; in the other he yields himself to be what ever his father would make him. To begin with the first: