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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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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.
SERMON XVI.
2. Thus of the Prodigal's Confession of his Sin; it follows to consider his Confession of the merit of it, expressed in these words, I am no more worthy to be called thy Son. The Words are a Meiosis, or a diminutive expression, in which less is said than intended. The thing here aimed at is Gospel Humiliation, an ingredient into Repentance, and concomitant of saving Faith; and is consequent upon the right apprehension of Sin, and the aggravation of it; and he that hath known what Sin is indeed, cannot but acknowledge himself unworthy of mercy, and worthy of misery: and so this negative compriseth the contrary affirmative. Hence,
2. THus of the Prodigal's Confession of his Sin; it follows to consider his Confession of the merit of it, expressed in these words, I am no more worthy to be called thy Son. The Words are a Meiosis, or a diminutive expression, in which less is said than intended. The thing here aimed at is Gospel Humiliation, an ingredient into Repentance, and concomitant of saving Faith; and is consequent upon the right apprehension of Sin, and the aggravation of it; and he that hath known what Sin is indeed, cannot but acknowledge himself unworthy of mercy, and worthy of misery: and so this negative comprizeth the contrary affirmative. Hence,