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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.
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.
4. God by this draws out the love of the soul ⟨p. 314⟩to him; breaks his heart, and wins him to himself: By this testification of his love he attracts a reciprocal love from the sinner; makes him now to choose God and give himself up to him, put himself into his hands, and devote himself to his service, for all this presently follows, vers. 21. Thus it is a sanctifying kiss.
4. God by this draws out the love of the soul ⟨p. 314⟩to him; breaks his heart, and wins him to himself: By this testification of his love he attracts a reciprocal love from the sinner; makes him now to chuse God and give himself up to him, put himself into his hands, and devote himself to his service, for all this presently follows, vers. 21. Thus it is a sanctifying kiss.