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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
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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 19 › DOCT. True Repentance is practical Repentance.
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3. The whole man is gone away from God by sin, and therefore the whole must return by repentance, Not only the heart is defiled, but the life is polluted; not the inward man alone, but the outward too is gone away from God, and must return to him: now true Repentance is not a partial, but a whole turning: we owe God the whole man, Soul, Body and Spirit, I Thess.5.23.
3. The whole man is gone away from God by sin, and therefore the whole must return by repentance, Not only the heart is defiled, but the life is polluted; not the inward man alone, but the outward too is gone away from God, and must return to him: now true Repentance is not a partial, but a whole turning: we ow God the whole man, Soul, Body and Spirit, I Thess.5.23.
4. The declarative glory of God is the great thing which all our doings should aim at. In Conversion therefore, we are not only to praise him, but to show forth his praise; and how is this done, but in life Repentance? God only sees the heart, men observe and judge of our lives.
4. The declarative glory of God is the great thing which all our doings should aim at. In Conversion therefore, we are not only to praise him, but to shew forth his praise; and how is this done, but in life Repentance? God only sees the heart, men observe and judge of our lives.
5. The Will, being commandress over the whole man, is not only to resolve for it self, but for the whole man. Purposing or resolving is properly an act of the will, but it is for the whole, it being representative of all, and being able to indent for all: thus the young man promiseth for himself, I will arise, true purposes are an obligation laid on the whole man for the performance of them.