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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.
3. It is an industrious work: when a thing is difficult, he that is in good earnest will take pains: it is not light skirmishes, but a warfare that must accomplish this business: his life therefore is an agony, he attends on the word […] diligence, prays with all importunity, as one that is oppressed, Isai. 38. 14. sets a strict ⟨p. 280⟩watch over his heart and life, looks to his ways, flies from temptations, endeavours that every step of his life may be a step farther from sin, and nearer to God, and in this race he runs as fast as he can.
3. It is an industrious work: when a thing is difficult, he that is in good earnest will take pains: it is not light skirmishes, but a warfare that must accomplish this business: his life therefore is an agony, he attends on the word 〈…〉 diligence, prayes with all importunity, as one that is oppressed, Isai. 38. 14. sets a strict ⟨p. 280⟩watch over his heart and life, looks to his wayes, flies from temptations, endeavours that every step of his life may be a step farther from sin, and nearer to God, and in this race he runs as fast as he can.
4. The fruit of all is, Sin dies, and Grace grows daily; I mean in the progress of his Christian course: he hates Sin more, loves God more, gets more strength against temptation, and more agility in Gods service; thus the renews his strength, mounts up with wings as Eagles, runs and is not weary, walks and doth not faint, Isa.40. ult.