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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.
3. Man was made to glorify God: i. e. the end of the precept for which man was by duty obliged, was that he might serve, honour, and glorify him: and having lost this power by the fall, it is every mans duty to labour after true Grace, whereby he may again please ⟨p. 251⟩God; for without this Principle, we cannot do it, and where this principle is, it necessarily includes, or involves Salvation in it. We cannot desire to be converted, but we do withal desire to be saved. We are to pray for Grace, without which we can do no service for God: Now Eupraxy is happiness formally; to be willing to be damned therefore, includes in it to be willing to be without Grace, and consequently dishonouring God for ever, as the damned do.
3. Man was made to glorifie God: i. e. the end of the precept for which man was by duty obliged, was that he might serve, honour, and glorifie him: and having lost this power by the fall, it is every mans duty to labour after true Grace, whereby he may again please ⟨p. 251⟩God; for without this Principle, we cannot do it, and where this principle is, it necessarily includes, or involves Salvation in it. We cannot desire to be converted, but we do withal desire to be saved. We are to pray for Grace, without which we can do no service for God: Now Eupraxy is happiness formally; to be willing to be damned therefore, includes in it to be willing to be without Grace, and consequently dishonouring God for ever, as the damned do.
Object. But no unregenerate man knows whether he be Chosen to life, and he ought to be willing to be disposed of according to Gods Decree.
Object. But no unregenerate man knowes whether he be Chosen to life, and he ought to be willing to be disposed of according to Gods Decree.