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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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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.
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.
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-soveraignty 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 thinkshe may capitulate with God about it. Now God will hide pride from man.
2. That his glorious Sovereignty may be fully subscribed to: Hence God will save none till they do yield that he might damn them, and hath no obligation from them to do otherwise: God will be seen in his royalty, to dispense grace from a throne, or not at all, hence we are to go to a throne of grace, Heb. 4. 16. God's Sovereignty is a most precious pearl in his Royal Diadem, and he will not suffer it to be plucked out: Job shall be convinced of this before he returns his captivity.
2. That his glorious Soveraignty may be fully subscribed to: Hence God will save none till they do yield that he might damn them, and hath no obligation from them to do otherwise: God will be seen in his royalty, to dispense grace from a throne, or not at all, hence we are to go to a throne of grace, Heb. 4. 16. God's Soveraignty is a most precious pearl in his Royal Diadem, and he will not suffer it to be pluckt out: Job shall be convinced of this before he returnes his captivity.