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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.
DOCT. 1. Outward careful attendance upon the visible service of God, is no sure sign of a sincere Christian.
The eldest son was in the field, and where could he have been better? He was getting money, while the other was spending it. The Scribes & Pharisees were great sticklers in the law and outward worship of God: hear how he boasts of himself; Luk. 18. 11. and yet all this may be where there is no sincerity; see, Mat. 5. 20. A man may do abundance and be a stranger to saving grace.
The eldest son was in the field, and where could he have been better? He was getting mony, while the other was spending it. The Scribes & Pharisees were great sticklers in the law and outward worship of God: hear how he boasts of himself; Luk. 18. 11. and yet all this may be where there is no sincerity; see, Mat. 5. 20. A man may do abundance and be a stranger to saving grace.
Reas. 1. Because a man may do all this upon false and unsound principles, for,