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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. 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.
2. Carry it humbly towards God in regard of his mercies. There are many mercies which God bestows upon us, and if we would carry worthily under them, we must carry humbly: Therefore,
2. Carry it humbly towards God in regard of his mercies. There are many mercies which God bestowes upon us, and if we would carry worthily under them, we must carry humbly: Therefore,