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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
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4. He is resolved that if God will accept him, witness his love to him, and acknowledge him in Christ, his free mercy shall have the full and whole Glory of it, and he will engage his heart to magnify mercy, by degrading himself, and keeping in mind his own unworthiness: God shall have the praise of all, his heart shall echo, grace, grace, through all his life, and heaven shall ring with these glorious acclamations to all eternity.
4. He is resolved that if God will accept him, witness his love to him, and acknowledge him in Christ, his free mercy shall have the full and whole Glory of it, and he will engage his heart to magnifie mercy, by degrading himself, and keeping in mind his own unworthiness: God shall have the praise of all, his heart shall eccho, grace, grace, through all his life, and heaven shall ring with these glorious acclamations to all eternity.
This is the true Gospel humility, which the spirit of God worketh in every soul whom he draws home to himself: This is a true qualification of Repentance of Faith, and the modification of it in respect of the term to which the sinner returns, viz. God: and those that so come shall find mercy. For the Reasons why God brings the soul thus to his foot, they are such as these.
This is the true Gospel humility, which the spirit of God worketh in every soul whom he draws home to himself: This is a true qualification of Repentance of Faith, and the modification of it in respect of the term to which the sinner returnes, viz. God: and those that so come shall find mercy. For the Reasons why God brings the soul thus to his foot, they are such as these.
Reas. 1. To take away all boasting from the creature: that the soul may have nothing at all before it to confide in:man is emptied of himself as long as there is any self-sovereignty remaining in him: he doth not, cannot acknowledge all to come from God, till he utterly relinquish the disposal of himself: He cannot see that his Salvation is wholly out of himself, as long as he thinks he may capitulate with God about it. Now God will hide pride from man.