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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2. He acknowledgeth his worthiness of all misery: that he is not only undeserving, but ill-deserving; that he hath not only forfeited all mercies, but procured to himself all woes; is not only unprofitable, but is also a great provocation to God. In particular,

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1. He acknowledgeth that all the sorrows and sufferings of this life, are not only his desert, but less than his desert, Ezra 9. 13. Job 11. 6 He will not only justify Gods anger, but magnify his mercy in all the sorrows that befall him here in this World, Lam. 3. 22. if God take • way his Estate, comforts of his life, strip him naked of all, yet naked as he is, he chargeth not ⟨p. 239⟩God, but blesseth him, Job 1. 20, 21, 22. the threatenings of God are just, his executions of them righteous, and his moderation of them merciful.

1. He acknowledgeth that all the sorrows and sufferings of this life, are not only his desert, but less than his desert, Ezra 9. 13. Job 11. 6 He will not only justifie Gods anger, but magnifie his mercy in all the sorrows that befal him here in this World, Lam. 3. 22. if God take • way his Estate, comforts of his life, strip him naked of all, yet naked as he is, he chargeth not

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