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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2. That God is bountiful, and ready to relieve such as are in want: This may add to thy encouragement and hope, though thou art not certain that he will help thee: The Prodigal did not know that his father would look upon him, but he knew him to be kind, and that ⟨p. 199⟩put him forward; so it should do thee; hence God hath written his Name in letters of goodness, Exod. 34. 6, 7. And to help here,

2. That God is bountiful, and ready to relieve such as are in want: This may add to thy encouragement and hope, though thou art not certain that he will help thee: The Prodigal did not know that his father would look upon him, but he knew him to be kind, and that ⟨p. 199⟩put him foreward; so it should do thee; hence God hath written his Name in letters of goodness, Exod. 34. 6, 7. And to help here,

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1. Consider how much God doth for such as never return to him, nor ask mercy of him: God's general goodness, should lead sinners to repentance, Rom. 2. 4. When you see how God spares profane and wretched sinners, and suffers them to live; yea, provides liberally for them; fills them with hid treasures, gives them more than heart can wish, and the waters of an overflowing cup are wrung out unto them, so that their hearts are filled with food and gladness, they crown their heads with Rose-buds, and spend their days in wealth, and leave the residue to their babes: Argue from hence, what goodness hath he then in store for them that humble themselves, forsake their sins, repent, and return to him with their whole hearts?

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