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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.
USE, 1: For Information,
1: See their folly who, contemning the servants of Christ, expect all their comforts and benefits to come from himself immediately: They scorn to receive the best robe, &c. at the hands of Christ's Servants, but must have it from him without means, though (should God grant us our desire) it is most suitable that his Servants should be helpful in it; yet it ⟨p. 346⟩is a strange frame in a Prodigal; that he will be limiting his Father, and telling him how he shall relieve him, or not at all? What? Can we not see the father's love in the gift, because it is sent by the hand of a Messenger? Well; it God's own way cannot content men, they are like to go without his blessing.
1: See their folly who, contemning the servants of Christ, expect all their comforts and benefits to come from himself immediatly: They scorn to receive the best robe, &c. at the hands of Christ's Servants, but must have it from him without means, though (should God grant us our desire) it is most suitable that his Servants should be helpful in it; yet it ⟨p. 346⟩is a strange frame in a Prodigal; that he will be limiting his Father, and telling him how he shall relieve him, or not at all? What? Can we not see the father's love in the gift, because it is sent by the hand of a Messenger? Well; it God's own way cannot content men, they are like to go without his blessing.
2. That those are likely to receive the greatest manifestations of Gods love to their soul; that are most careful and diligent in giving attendance to the Ordinances. In heaven indeed, we shall derive all immediately from Christ, but upon earth it is otherwise: Hence that promise,