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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
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USE, Thus may teach us that for Ministers to preach nothing but terrors, or for poor awakened souls to look upon nothing but terrors, is not the way to promote the work of the Gospel, or conversion of Souls: This drives only to despair: All our Doctrines, and all our hopes, must centre in the free Grace of God. But I come to the words themselves.
USE, Thus may teach us that for Ministers to preach nothing but terrours, or for poor awakened souls to look upon nothing but terrours, is not the way to promote the work of the Gospel, or conversion of Souls: This drives only to despair: All our Doctrines, and all our hopes, must center in the free Grace of God. But I come to the words themselves.
1. The first part of his resolution is general: viz. that he will return to his father; I will arise, and go to my father. In this the work of Repentance is generally, and comprehensively intimated, in which there is;
1. The terminus â quo: the place from whence he came, viz. his far Country: where he was, though not locally, yet spiritually distant from God, far from him in heart and life; this is it he will leave:
1. The terminus â quo: the place from whence he came, viz. his farr Country: where he was, though not locally, yet spiritually distant from God, far from him in heart and life; this is it he will leave: