Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

Name: Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684

[6], 391, [1] p. ; 15 cm. · 87k words · Evans 379 · Wing W2285

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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 4 › DOCT. The more God doth for sinners, the further they seek to get a…: DOCT. The more God doth for sinners, the further they seek to get away from him.

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1. When men do all they can to put God out of their thoughts, Psal. 10. 4. absence is a great help to forgetfulness; But wicked men desire not to think of God, or his Word, of his promises or threatenings: Men live without God in the world, Eph. 2. 12. They live at such a rate as if there were no God to Judge or call them to an account for their ways: There is a practical Atheism in the heart of all natural men, Psal. 14. 1. And they are gone far from God, having, as much as they are able, shaken off the thoughts of his being, power, holiness, Justice, &c.

1. When men do all they can to put God out of their thoughts, Psal. 10. 4. absence is a great help to forgetfulness; But wicked men desire not to think of God, or his Word, of his promises or threatnings: Men live without God in the world, Eph. 2. 12. They live at such a rate as if there were no God to Judge or call them to an account for their wayes: There is a practical Atheism in the heart of all natural men, Psal. 14. 1. And they are gone far from God, having, as much as they are able, shaken off the thoughts of his being, power, holiness, Justice, &c.

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2. When men indulge themselves in wickedness on presumption that God is a great way off from them, they take it for granted that he intermedleth not with their affairs, sees not, nor takes any notice of their ways and doings; they may sin, and live according to their own pleasure, and God is not at all concerned in it; such were they,

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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

SERMON V.

DOCT. That wicked men grow to the height of profaneness by degrees.

DOCT. That wicked men grow to the height of prophaness by degrees.

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SERMON V.

DOCT. That wicked men grow to the height of profaneness by degrees.

DOCT. That wicked men grow to the height of prophaness by degrees.