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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.
Doct. I. That the most wicked inventions are sometimes clothed with the fairest pretences.
Doct. I. That the most wicked inventions are sometimes cloathed with the fairest pretences.
Men are not content to dissemble one with another, but with God too. The name Father, is a name of honour, and when the Son calls him Father, he makes a show of acknowledging him in all that dignity, power, privilege which a Father hath of his Children: he comes mannerly, as if he would not grieve him, while yet he is plotting his greatest disgrace, and how to carry himself most unworthily.
Men are not content to dissemble one with another, but with God too. The name Father, is a name of honour, and when the Son calls him Father, he makes a shew of acknowledging him in all that dignity, power, priviledg which a Father hath of his Children: he comes mannerly, as if he would not grieve him, while yet he is plotting his greatest disgrace, and how to carry himself most unworthily.
Reas. From the naturally remaining activity of Conscience which is in men, and hath in all some power, excepting such consciences as are cauterized. ⟨p. 14⟩men have something in them accusing or excusing,