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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
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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.
DOCT. 4. The Believers joy is but begun in this life.
They began to be merry. They are but the sips and foretastes, inchoations of joy which they partake in in this world: The Saints have joy here transcending all the worlds pleasures and delights, such as indeed they cannot so much as apprehend, 1 Cor. 2. 9. but compared with those that are to come, they are but drops, essays, inchoa•ions.
They began to be merry. They are but the sips and foretastes, inchoations of joy which they partake in in this world: The Saints have joy here transcending all the worlds pleasures and delights, such as indeed they cannot so much as apprehend, 1 Cor. 2. 9. but compared with those that are to come, they are but drops, essayes, inchoa•ions.
Reas. 1. From the different manner of their fruition of the object of their joy: Their joy here, is for the most part a joy of hope, but afterwards it shall be a joy of possession, Rom. 8. 24. 2 Cor. 5. 7. For we walk by faith, not by fight. They are now heirs, and their inheritance is glorious, and the fore-thought of it affords them great joy, but they are under Tutors, and Guardians the while; but then they shall take possession of all the Glories of Heaven, and fullness of Christ: they now rejoice that their names are written in Heaven; then they ⟨p. 352⟩