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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. 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:
2. The terminus ad q•em: or whether he will go, to his father: How God may be said to be his father, who is an unregenerate profligate sinner: I here intend not to make particular enquiry; though it may possibly be intimated to us by this words, being so often used in the parable, that by virtue of the Everlasting Covenant of Redemption, every Elect Person, in his greatest degeneracy and Prodigality, is looked upon as a Child, chosen in Christ to the Adoption of Children: But it here mainly intends his going to God as a Father of Mercies.
2. The terminus ad q•em: or whether he will go, to his father: How God may be said to be his father, who is an unregenerate profligate sinner: I here intend not to make particular enquiry; though it may possibly be intimated to us by this words, being so often used in the parable, that by vertue of the Everlasting Covenant of Redemption, every Elect Person, in his greatest degeneracy and Prodigality, is looked upon as a Child, chosen in Christ to the Adoption of Children: But it here mainly intends his going to God as a Father of Mercies.