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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.
2. Consider how many repenting Prodigals have upon their return been entertained and made welcome by him, who once did as thou hast done, run themselves out, spent all, and were ready to famish, but, betaking themselves to him, they were fed, and saved alive, and this may give you hopes to find the like favour at his hand; Consider therefore,
1. They were such who as little deserved this favour as thou: they had nothing of merit for which they should be •id welcome, and relieved ⟨p. 200⟩in their distress, for all mankind stand guilty before God, Rom. 3. 19.
1. They were such who as little diserved this favour as thou: they had nothing of merit for which they should be •id welcome, and relieved ⟨p. 200⟩in their distress, for all mankind stand guilty before God, Rom. 3. 19.
2. They had gone away from him, and wasted all in riot, as thou hast done: What a Prodigal was Manasseh? how miserably had he run himself out? yet he obtained favour: What a great sinner had Paul been? yet he was accepted,