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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…
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 teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Two lines from Luke]
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.
Let God bestow upon him whatever he pleaseth, ⟨p. 46⟩for him never so much, yet he takes it not as any engagement upon him to serve God, or glorify him, but dishonoureth him with all: This was the sin which the Prop••• •aid to the charge of that wicked King, Dan. 5. 23. The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou hast not glorified. And this Paul declares to be the guise of men who are strangers from the grace of God, Rom. 2. 4, 5. The evidence and ground of this truth will appear if we lay together these particulars.
Let God bestow upon him whatever he pleaseth, ⟨p. 46⟩for him never so much, yet he takes it not as any engagement upon him to serve God, or glorifie him, but dishonoureth him with all: This was the sin which the Prop••• •aid to the charge of that wicked King, Dan. 5. 23. The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified. And this Paul declares to be the guize of men who are strangers from the grace of God, Rom. 2. 4, 5. The evidence and ground of this truth will appear if we lay together these particulars.
1. The heart of every natural man is estranged from God: they are born so, Psal. 53. 3