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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.
Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 19 › DOCT. True Repentance is practical Repentance.
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. To be using all means to strengthen hatred of Sin: the more we hate Sin, the more we are gone from it; he whose heart most abhors it is gotten furthest off from it: Hence, there is an using such helps as may make it loathsome: which are a viewing the evil nature of it as discovered in the Word of God, viz. its pollution, its contrariety to God, the wrong it doth the Soul: and also the cross of Christ, on which we should crucify the World and its Lusts, Gal.6.14.
1. To be using all means to strengthen hatred of Sin: the more we hate Sin, the more we are gone from it; he whose heart most abhors it is gotten furthest off from it: Hence, there is an using such helps as may make it loathsome: which are a viewing the evil nature of it as discovered in the Word of God, viz. its pollution, its contrariety to God, the wrong it doth the Soul: and also the cross of Christ, on which we should crucifie the World and its Lusts, Gal.6.14.
2. To be by all ways engaging our hearts to God, to love and fear him; and hence to get more and more persuaded of his goodness, of the riches of his Grace in Christ, of the great happiness of those whom he admits into favour with himself: the better we are acquainted with, and persuaded of God, the more intense will be the actings of our Grace, Psal. 9.10.
2. To be by all wayes engaging our hearts to God, to love and fear him; and hence to get more and more perswaded of his goodness, of the riches of his Grace in Christ, of the great happiness of those whom he admits into favour with himself: the better we are acquainted with, and perswaded of God, the more intense will be the actings of our Grace, Psal. 9.10