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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.
2. How much thou hast done to render thy self unworthy: Thou hast not only done nothing for God and his Glory, but but hast been doing very much against it; nay consider.
1. What an unworthy creature thou art in thy natural state; so far from being amiable in Gods eyes, that thou art by nature a loathsome ⟨p. 244⟩object: Thy pedigree, original, state, all speak all against thee: thou mayest see what thou art, Ezek. 16. begin. Though thou hadst done nothing against God, yet thy very being is hateful: Who counts toads and snakes worthy of preservation, but rather of destruction?
1. What an unworthy creature thou art in thy natural state; so far from being amiable in Gods eyes, that thou art by nature a loathsome ⟨p. 244⟩object: Thy p•degree, original, state, all speak all against thee: thou maist see what thou art, Ezek. 16. begin. Though thou hadst done nothing against God, yet thy very being is hateful: Who counts toads and snakes worthy of preservation, but rather of destruction?
2. Thou hast carried it unworthily towards God in the whole course of thy life: all the days of thy vanity and unregeneracy, all thy course and carriage, hath been to set thee out of his favour. If vile and profligate abuses will give a man worth, thou mightest claim it, for such hath all thy life been. Consider,