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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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 15 › DOCT. Where God gives true Repentance, such an one will confess his…: DOCT. Where God gives true Repentance, such an one will confess his sins with the great…

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2. Against the love of God; his good will, his bounty and beneficence to his creatures, by which he doth invite and engageth all men to serve and honour him; it is therefore called a despising of his goodness, Rom. 2. 4. The Fathers bounty made the Sons sins the worse, he had readily given him a plentiful Portion, and yet he spends it in riot.

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3. Against the promises and threatenings of God; they slight the one, and contemn the other, are not in love with the promises, nor afraid of his wrath: There are great promises made to obedience, but they forsake these mercies, count them as worthless things: See Psal. 81. 9, to 13. God hath fearfully menaced, and denounced heavy judgments against sin and sinners, and bids them beware of sin because of them, Jer. 6.8. Be instructed, left my soul depart from thee. And because these are from God, who is able to honour his servants, and to make inexpressibly miserable his enemies, this is a sore aggravation.

3. Against the promises and threatnings of God; they slight the one, and contemn the other, are not in love with the promises, nor afraid of his wrath: There are great promises made to obedience, but they forsake these mercies, count them as worthless things: See Psal. 81. 9, to 13. God hath fearfully menaoed, and denounced heavy judgments against sin and sinners, and bids them beware of sin because of them, Jer. 6.8. Be instructed, left my soul depart from thee. And because these are from God, who is able to honour his servants, and to make inexpressibly miserable his enemies, this is a sore aggravation.

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