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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.
SERMON III.
4. WE are in the next place to consider of the Fathers conceding act, or yielding unto the unreasonable demand of his Son; in these words, And he divided unto them his living. To argue from hence that there is a Portion due from God to any men, is a straining the Parable beyond our Saviours meaning: This action of the Father is brought in here, only to express and signify to us, Gods bounty, that by comparing of it, we may thereby be better advantaged to discover the greatness of mans impiety, and withal to give us to see and consider, how far the Providence of God can, without deserving any just imputation, indulge wicked men, and forward them in their sinful ways. Hence,
4. WE are in the next place to consider of the Fathers conceding act, or yeelding unto the unreasonable demand of his Son; in these words, And he divided unto them his living. To argue from hence that there is a Portion due from God to any men, is a straining the Parable beyond our Saviours meaning: This action of the Father is brought in here, only to express and signifie to us, Gods bounty, that by comparing of it, we may thereby be better advantaged to discover the greatness of mans impiety, and withal to give us to see and consider, how far the Providence of God can, without deserving any just imputation, indulge wicked men, and forward them in their sinful wayes. Hence,