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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.
1. There, is no truth any further affects us, or moves with us, than as it is applied particularly to our minds and consciences. The truths of the word of God are ever the same, for they are everlasting truths: It was ever a truth, that the ways of Sin lead to that chambers of death, that they are bitterness in the latter end; that the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness, and their latter end is peace: but these are general truths, and the reason why men practice not accordingly, is because they never applied ⟨p. 159⟩these truths to themselves, or compared their ways by them; hence that complaint, Isa. 1. 3. My People doth not consider. And hence that is the first direction of the Prophet, Hag. 1. 5. Now therefore, thus saith the Lord, consider your ways.
1. There, is no truth any further affects us, or moves with us, than as it is applyed particularly to our minds and consciences. The truths of the word of God are ever the same, for they are everlasting truths: It was ever a truth, that the wayes of Sin lead to that chambers of death, that they are bitterness in the latter end; that the wayes of wisdom are wayes of pleasantness, and their latter end is peace: but these are general truths, and the reason why men practice not accordingly, is because they never applied ⟨p. 159⟩these truths to themselves, or compared their wayes by them; hence that complaint, Isa. 1. 3. My People doth not consider. And hence that is the first direction of the Prophet, Hag. 1. 5. Now therefore, thus saith the Lord, consider your wayes.