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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.
1. Acknowledge your unworthiness of the least outward mercy; join with Jacob in his Confession, Gen. 32. 10. A sinner is not worthy of a piece of bread, or a drop of water; all our daily refreshments are mere mercy; yea, put very life, Lam. 3. 22. You never earned ⟨p. 270⟩your meat or drink, all the work you do is not worth a farthing.
1. Acknowledge your unworthiness of the least outward mercy; joyn with Jacob in his Confession, Gen. 32. 10. A sinner is not worthy of a piece of bread, or a drop of water; all our daily refreshments are meer mercy; yea, put very life, Lam. 3. 22. You never earned ⟨p. 270⟩your meat or drink, all the work you do is not worth a farthing.
2. Wonder that God should do any thing for you: David makes a great wonderment at it, Psal. 8. 4. Art thou a Believer? that is Grace; in thy self a wretched man: There is not the best man upon earth, but hath cause to stand admiring that God should condescend to look so low as to take any notice of him, or to do him the least kindness.