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 16 › DOCT. Where God gives true Repentance, he makes the Sinner to see a…: DOCT. Where God gives true Repentance, he makes the Sinner to see and confess himself t…

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3. Unworthy that God should condescend to step aside to do him the least courtesy at all; that he should visit him with any mercy, Matt. 8. 8. Hence he wonders at all, saith, as David, Who am I? or as Mephibosheth, 2 Sam. 9. 8. What is thy servant, that that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? The ungrateful sinner is quarrelling with God, let him show him never so much kindness; but the humble sinner wonders at God, let him show him never so ⟨p. 238⟩little kindness, because he judgeth that none can be little to such a worthless creature as he.

3. Unworthy that God should condescend to step aside to do him the least courteousie at all; that he should visit him with any mercy, Matt. 8. 8. Hence he wonders at all, saith, as David, Who am I? or as Mephibosheth, 2 Sam. 9. 8. What is thy servant, that that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? The ungrateful sinner is quarrelling with God, let him shew him never so much kindness; but the humble sinner wonders at God, let him shew him never so ⟨p. 238⟩little kindness, because he judgeth that none can be little to such a worthless creature as he.

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2. He acknowledgeth that he is much more unworthy that God should pardon his Sin, and take him among the number of his Children, that he should relieve his famishing Soul, and bestow his Grace upon him: it is such a thing that he dareth hardly speak of, Luk. 18. 14

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