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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. Bear affliction with meekness, patience, and self-abhorrence, Mic. 7.9. With patience, be in subjection to your father, when he doth nothing but right, we should be silent, Job 40 4. 5. He that is vile, hath nothing to say: and with self-loathing, the more we loath our selves, the more we shall love an afflicting God: It is the Lord, &c. Look on thy self as a poor inconsiderable thing, and that will teach thee meekness: What wonder if a worm be trod on?
Quest. But why doth God deal worse with me than with other sinful men?
Answ. 1. Possibly some are in a worse condition than thou. 2. Dost thou know any one by nature worse than thou art. 3. Canst ⟨p. 269⟩thou say thou art afflicted more than thy deserving, or indeed up to it? 4. Is not he the Potter and thou the clay? let him alone, if he be Sovereign thou must be silent.
Answ. 1. Possibly some are in a worse condition than thou. 2. Dost thou know any one by nature worse than thou art. 3. Canst ⟨p. 269⟩thou say thou art afflicted more than thy deserving, or indeed up to it? 4. Is not he the Potter and thou the clay? let him alone, if he be Soveraign thou must be silent.