Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

Name: Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684

[6], 391, [1] p. ; 15 cm. · 87k words · Evans 379 · Wing W2285

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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 23 › DOCT. When God manifests his special love to the soul of a sinner i…: DOCT. When God manifests his special love to the soul of a sinner in Conversion, it will…Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 23 › DOCT. When God manifests his special love to the soul of a sinner i…: DOCT. When God manifests his special love to the soul of a sinner in Conversion, it wil…

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:798p. 320–337

God's pardoning and accepting Grace, sensibly apprehended, will make a soul more to loth his sins, accuse himself of them, and be ashamed at them. Though whiles God is kindling these resolves, he comes in with them and brings his Salvation, yet this shall not extinguish those resolutions, but help them. This is the season to express and act, Godly sorrow, humiliation and repentance. We have David in this for an excellent example; whom when ⟨image ?⟩[…] ⟨p. 337⟩none but free Citizens were to wear rings: others, for his ennoblement, among the Oriental nations, none but the Nobility had this privilege: others for the seal of the spirit: The Wedding Ring was given as a ratification of Marriage; so now the union between Christ and the soul is sealed and confirmed.

God's pardoning and accepting Grace, sensibly apprehended, will make a soul more to loth his sins, accuse himself of them, and be ashamed at them. Though whiles God is kindling these resolves, he comes in with them and brings his Salvation, yet this shall not extinguish those resolutions, but help them. This is the season to express and act, Godly sorrow, humiliation and repentance. We have David in this for an excellent example; whom when ⟨image ?⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 337⟩none but free Citizens were to wear rings: others, for his ennoblement, among the Oriental nations, none but the Nobility had this priviledge: others for the seal of the spirit: The Wedding Ring was given as a ratification of Marriage; so now the union between Christ and the soul is sealed and confirmed.

:799p. 337¶3

3. Shoes are put upon his feet: The feet are the affections, shoes are both for Ornament, and for saying the feet from harm: These shoes are the preparation of the Gospel, of peace,

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