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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. Carry it humbly in respect of Gods outward providences: We live in a world of change, and there are varieties of conditions in which we are thrown up and down, and shall never carry it right in them without Humility. And here,
1. Carry it humbly in respect of affliction: there are many changes passing over our heads, God brings many cloudy and mournful days upon his people; he sees meet ever and anon to chasten them, and it is fit that a vale of sin, be a vale of tears, All calls us to be humble: ⟨p. 268⟩The Child should stoop, when his father is correcting him: Humble sense of our vileness is a fit posture to meet afflicting times in: For help,
1. Carry it humbly in respect of affliction: there are many changes passing over our heads, God brings many cloudy and mournful dayes upon his people; he sees meet ever and anon to chasten them, and it is fit that a vale of sin, be a vale of tears, All calls us to be humble: ⟨p. 268⟩The Child should stoop, when his father is correcting him: Humble sense of our vileness is a fit posture to meet afflicting times in: For help,
1. Justify God in all the trials that he brings upon us: Hence labour feelingly to acknowledge our desert, Dan. 9. 8. Accept of the punishment of your iniquity; say the Lord is righteous: You are Believers; what then? Christ hath satisfied God as a condemning Judge, yet he will lay his fatherly chastisements upon his faulty Children, and they have no reason to complain of being beaten.