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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.
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USE. To convince and reprove this folly in the Children of men: Are these things your own? how came you by them? what did they cost you? whence had you to pay for them? did you put them into, or procure them for your selves? who was it that taught you more than the beasts of the field, you your selves, or God? what did that little piece of common Mass or matter merit of God to be made into a man, and not a brute? have you anything which God did not bestow upon you? and ⟨p. 26⟩what obligation had you laid upon him to do it? wherein stood he more engaged to you than to others? can you keep them as long as you please? or can you entail them upon your posterity? nay, can you say they shall be yours the next hour? if you can do none of all this, why then do you boast and pride our selves in these things? be assured if you are grown too proud to confess them to be God's it's the ready way not to have them long yours: If Nebuchadnezzar will not give God the honour of making him a man, he can soon let him know how easily he can change him into a beast.
USE. To convince and reprove this folly in the Children of men: Are these things your own? how came you by them? what did they cost you? whence had you to pay for them? did you put them into, or procure them for your selves? who was it that taught you more than the beasts of the field, you your selves, or God? what did that little piece of common Mass or matter merit of God to be made into a man, and not a bruit? have you anything which God did not bestow upon you? and ⟨p. 26⟩what obligation had you laid upon him to do it? wherein stood he more engaged to you than to others? can you keep them as long as you please? or can you entaile them upon your posterity? nay, can you say they shall be yours the next houre? if you can do none of all this, why then do you boast and pride our selves in these things? be assured if you are grown too proud to confess them to be God's it's the ready way not to have them long yours: If Nebuchadnazzar will not give God the honour of making him a man, he can soon let him know how easily he can change him into a beast.