Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

1. Limit not God to such a measure or manner ⟨p. 265⟩of the dispensation of his grace: as we should desire all grace, so we should be thankful for every portion of it: Beggars must not be choosers. Paul would have grace to vanquish temptation; God would have him content with grace sufficient to keep him from being vanquished by it: If you have any Grace, it is a gift, and if you would have more, you must be humbled, 1 Pet. 5. 5.

1. Limit not God to such a measure or manner ⟨p. 265⟩of the dispensation of his grace: as we should desire all grace, so we should be thankful for every portion of it: Beggars must not be chusers. Paul would have grace to vanquish temptation; God would have him content with grace sufficient to keep him from being vanquished by it: If you have any Grace, it is a gift, and if you would have more, you must be humbled, 1 Pet. 5. 5.

2. Be humble when God denies thee the special communication of grace: Whether it be of enlarged assistance; though ragged and poor, and canst scarce do any thing, but art ready to slip and fall: thou hast earned nothing, and God knows what is best for thee: Or in respect of consolation, thou hast not those ravishing apprehensions which thou wouldest, but he seems to hide the light of his countenance, complain not, he is sovereign and just, resolve to wait, Isa. 5. 17. Be not discontented: Thou takest much pains, waitest diligently on all means, and their seems to be but little coming in; let not this make thee weary: thou art sowing, it is not yet harvest: grieve but fret not; pray, but pine not, and know the harvest will come in God's time,