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 10 › Doctrine 1: DOCT. 1. The natural man, whiles he is wandering from God, is beside himself.Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 10 › Doctrine 1: DOCT. 1. The natural man, whiles he is wandring from God, is beside himself.

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:359p. 141–142¶5

5. They are incapable of receiving counsel, ⟨p. 142⟩or being convinced of their foolish and mad ways: There is no persuading a fool or madman with reason, for wisdom and counsel is out of his reach: If you fetch all the Topics in Logic, and all the Tropes and figures in Rhetoric, you may move a stone sooner than him from his notions: Thus unregenerate men are unteachable; you may teach an Ox and an Ass sooner, Isa. 1: 3: Tell them of the evil of their ways, the unreasonableness of their courses, bring the witness of natural conscience, the testimony of reason, the light of Scripture, and all will not move or persuade them: Plead, entreat, woo, solicit by all that can be said or thought of, surdo canis. They are deaf adders, Psal. 58: 4,5: Which will not hearken to the voice of charms, charming never so wisely.

5. They are incapable of receiving counsel, ⟨p. 142⟩or being convinced of their foolish and mad wayes: There is no perswading a fool or madman with reason, for wisdom and counsel is out of his reach: If you fetch all the Topicks in Logick, and all the Tropes and figures in Rhetorick, you may move a stone sooner than him from his notions: Thus unregenerate men are unteachable; you may teach an Ox and an Ass sooner, Isa. 1: 3: Tell them of the evil of their wayes, the unreasonableness of their courses, bring the witness of natural conscience, the testimony of reason, the light of Scripture, and all will not move or perswade them: Plead, intreat, woo, sollicit by all that can be said or thought of, surdo canis. They are deaf adders, Psal. 58: 4,5: Which will not hearken to the voice of charmes, charming never so wisely.

:360p. 142–143¶6

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DOCT. II. God, in order to the conversion of a sinner, first works upon the understanding.