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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
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DOCT. I. Those that will not serve God, shall serve a worse Master.
The Prodigal was weary of his Father's Government, and what comes of it? he is fain to put himself under the Government of a stranger: Man was not made for sovereignty, but for service, and properly for the service of God; if therefore he shake off this service God righteously provides him cruel and Tyrannical Lords, that shall bear rule over him, 2. Chron. 12. 8.
The Prodigal was weary of his Father's Government, and what comes of it? he is fain to put himself under the Goverment of a stranger: Man was not made for sovereignty, but for service, and properly for the service of God; if therefore he shake off this service God righteously provides him cruel and Tyrannical Lords, that shal bear rule over him, 2. Chron. 12. 8.
USE, This may teach us to beware how we count the service of God irksome and tedious. If Christ's easy yoke will not be born, but we will pluck out our necks, and draw back our shoulders, Satan's iron yoke shall be prepared for us, and then we shall sooner or later know the difference.
USE, This may teach us to beware how we count the service of God irksome and tedious. If Christ's easie yoke will not be born, but we will pluck out our necks, and draw back our shoulders, Satan's iron yoke shall be prepared for us, and then we shall sooner or later know the difference.