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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.
2. Then must God be equally moved to compassion to all sinners, who are alike miserable, and alike need succour; and then why are not all saved? That compassion which saves one, could as well save another, but there are but some sharers in this saving compassion, others suffer his rigour, Rom. 11. 7. The Elect obtained it, the rest were blinded.
2. Not their legal convictions, and tenors, and confessions and softly walkings &c. i. e. No preparatory work: For, 1. The Son was for all them a great way off, when his Father pitied him. 2. There are that Call, and God will not hear, that seek him early, and shall not find him, Prov. 1: 28:
2. Not their legal convictions, and tenors, and confessions and softly walkings &c. i. e. No preparatory work: For, 1. The Son was for all them a great way off, when his Father pittied him. 2. There are that Call, and God will not hear, that seek him early, and shall not find him, Prov. 1: 28:
3. Not legal Repentance and Reformation, turning from many sinful practises, and doing many things: For these are nothing but sin: Esau repented and wept, but it profited him not, Heb. 12: 17: Herod's reformation engaged not God to him. In sum, God's compassion is according to his will, and that is absolutely free, nor to be regenerated by the creature, Rom: 9: 16, with 18: