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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.
4. That the discovering of this way, and appointing Salvation in it is of Grace, is evident, for God and man were fallen out, and God might choose whether ever he would accept him any more: nor is there any proportion between what is required, and the consequent Salvation: besides, Christ, by whom alone we have access to it, was freely given to open this way.
4. That the discovering of this way, and appointing Salvation in it is of Grace, is evident, for God and man were fallen out, and God might chuse whether ever he would accept him any more: nor is there any proportion between what is required, and the consequent Salvation: besides, Christ, by whom alone we have access to it, was freely given to open this way.
5. That the bringing of any into, and keeping of them in this way is also of Grace, is the thing which we have now to prove, and will clear the truth of the Doctrine; and indeed this alone is that which removes all legal respects from the Gospel; and the truth of it will hence appear:
1. That before the Spirit of God begins to work upon him, there is nothing in an elect person to distinguish him from another: he is dead as well as he, a child of wrath even as others, Eph.2.3. One hath not a better nature, or better dispositions than the other: Abraham was an Idolater, Rahab an Harlot, Mary Magdalen no better, Paul a Blasphemer and Persecutor, and in his rage the spirit met him.