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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.
1. That God gives himself to the sinner to be his, and takes him to himself, makes himself to be his portion, and bequeaths himself to him, and receives him into arms of mercy, making him his peculiar treasure and jewel.
2. That he now infuseth his grace into his soul, by breathing spiritual life into him: He falls upon him with his spirit and grace, and lays the foundation of spiritual life in him, by putting a principle of it into his soul, quickening him who was dead.
2. That he now infuseth his grace into his soul, by breathing spiritual life into him: He falls upon him with his spirit and grace, and layes the foundation of spiritual life in him, by putting a principle of it into his soul, quickening him who was dead.
3. He kissed him; this is the last thing in the act; and here is great favour indeed, that when he might have killed him he kisseth him; this word hath divorce expressions of love contained under it.
3. He kissed him; this is the last thing in the act; and here is great favour indeed, that when he might have killed him he kisseth him; this word hath divorse expressions of love contained under it.