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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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4. Against God's earnest and heart-breaking calls and counsels; yea, strongest Motives and persuasions: What stronger plea can God use against sin, than to declare that it is abominable to him, & his soul hates it […] yet it is ⟨p. 225⟩a grief to his spirit, and will oppress him? and yet thus God pleads with sinners, Jer 44. 4.
4. Against God's earnest and heart-breaking calls and counsels; yea, strongest Motives and perswasions: What stronger plea can God use against sin, than to declare that it is abominable to him, & his soul hates it 〈…〉 yet it is ⟨p. 225⟩a grief to his spirit, and will oppress him? and yet thus God pleads with sinners, Jer 44. 4.
5. Against his Honour and Glory: There is nothing so much against the declarative glory of God as sin is; yea, nothing at all is against it, but sin: Every sin dishonours his Name; by secret sin we dishonour him in our hearts, by open sin, we do it in our lives […] God is an holy God, and it is only holiness that honours him. Now this is to see sin sinful, •hen we are brought to see that it is against God, wherein properly the sinfulness of it doth consist: Nor can a soul ever know how great an evil sin is, nor the meritoriousness of it, not the equity of the penalty threatened against it, till he be fully persuaded and made to acknowledge that it is against Heaven.
5. Against his Honour and Glory: There is nothing so much against the declarative glory of God as sin is; yea, nothing at all is against it, but sin: Every sin dishonours his Name; by secret sin we dishonour him in our hearts, by open sin, we do it in our lives 〈…〉 God is an holy God, and it is only holiness that honours him. Now this is to see sin sinfull, hen we are brought to see that it is against God, wherein properly the sinfulness of it doth consist: Nor can a soul ever know how great an evil sin is, nor the meritoriousness of it, not the equity of the penalty threatned against it, till he be fully perswaded and made to acknowledge that it is against Heaven.