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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.
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.
3. Let every affliction help to embitter sin to thee: that is one great end of it, to wea• us from sin, and make us know it evil and bitter; and we shall bear out afflictions the better, when we know and confess that our iniquities have procured them: trouble for sin will swallow up other sorrows.
4. Think not worse of God or his ways because of the afflictions you meet withal, but be willing to wait on him through all: Break not with God, nor leave him, nor abate of your love to him: believe that he can take away the affliction: and believe that he will sanctify it to you: and resolve with Job, that though he slay you, you will trust in him.
4. Think not worse of God or his wayes because of the afflictions you meet withal, but be willing to wait on him through all: Break not with God, nor leave him, nor abate of your love to him: believe that he can take away the affliction: and believe that he will sanctifie it to you: and resolve with Job, that though he slay you, you will trust in him.