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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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2. That in the course of this Providence many wicked men enjoy all favours in abundance. This is so notorious a truth, that the so frequent, and almost constant observation of it, hath sometimes dazzled the weak eyes of the People of God, and put them to a demur in their thoughts. In Job's time it was not a thing so obscure as his friends would have made of it; hence Job. in his own vindication amply describes it, Job 21. begin. David or Asaph, gives no less a pathetical description of it, and his own imbecility in those offences which he had taken at the observation of it, Psal. 73. begin, Jeremiah also seems to be in some suspense about it, Chap. 12. 1. What power, honour, and and dominion had Nebuchadnezzar conferred upon him? What an oracle of Wit and Policy for his time was Ahithophel? What eloquent curious language had Herod and Tertullus; yea, and we may still observe men to be fullest fraught with these common favours, who neither glorify God, nor have any desire to glorify him therewithal.
2. That in the course of this Providence many wicked men enjoy all favours in abundance. This is so notorious a truth, that the so frequent, and almost constant observation of it, hath sometimes dazled the weak eyes of the People of God, and put them to a demurre in their thoughts. In Job's time it was not a thing so obscure as his friends would have made of it; hence Job. in his own vindication amply describes it, Job 21. begin. David or Asaph, gives no less a pathetical description of it, and his own imbecillity in those offenses which he had taken at the observation of it, Psal. 73. begin, Jeremiah also seems to be in some suspense about it, Chap. 12. 1. What power, honour, and and dominion had Nebuchadnezzer conferred upon him? What an oracle of Wit and Policy for his time was Achitophel? What eloquent curious language had Herod and Tertullus; yea, and we may still observe men to be fullest fraught with these common favours, who neither glorifie God, nor have any desire to glorifie him therewithal.