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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. God now reveals that he is fully reconciled to, and at peace with him; that all former distances and alienations of heart are wholly taken away; he is no more angry, nor will any more condemn him. David kissed Absalom to let him understand he was now reconciled. God never kisseth and killeth, as Joab dealt with Amasa: his heart always goes out with his promise. It is a justifying kiss, intimating that this soul shall never more have any more cause to fear the suffering the punishment of his sins, or being exposed to condemnation.
2. God now reveals that he is fully reconciled to, and at peace with him; that all former distances and alienations of heart are wholly taken away; he is no more angry, nor will any more condemn him. David kissed Absolom to let him understand he was now reconciled. God never kisseth and killeth, as Joab dealt with Amasa: his heart alwayes goes out with his promise. It is a justifying kiss, intimating that this soul shall never more have any more cause to fear the suffering the punishment of his sins, or being exposed to condemnation.
3. The father by this manifestly takes his son into the state of a son: It is a kiss of Adoption; David thus acknowledged Absalom: The sinner had made himself an abject, God now restores him again to that inheritance which he had rooted himself out of: he is thus taken again into his fathers house, and made to enjoy the privilege of a Child.
3. The father by this manifestly takes his son into the state of a son: It is a kiss of Adoption; David thus acknowledged Absolom: The sinner had made himself an abject, God now restores him again to that inheritance which he had rooted himself out of: he is thus taken again into his fathers house, and made to enjoy the priviledge of a Child.