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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.
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USE, 3. If Hypocrites may not feast it with the People of God here, much less shall they do it in the Kingdom of Glory: If they may not partake with them in the feast of Tabernacles, much less in their consummation: How miserable a thing then is it to be a professor and no more? to how wood and draw water with the Gibeonites? to do the drudgery of the Law, but not to partake of the joys of the Gospel? a legal li•e is a life of much business, but of no comfort; there are many terrors which may oppress the conscience for defaults, and much labour in striving to attain an unattainable legal perfection; but no true joys, which can only flow from the sense of God's love and pardon in Jesus Christ; beware than of Hypocrisy.
USE, 3. If Hypocrites may not feast it with the People of God here, much less shal they do it in the Kingdom of Glory: If they may not partake with them in the feast of Tabernacles, much less in their consummation: How miserable a thing then is it to be a professor and no more? to how wood and draw water with the Gibeonites? to do the drudgery of the Law, but not to partake of the joyes of the Gospel? a legal li•e is a life of much business, but of no comfort; there are many terrours which may oppress the conscience for defaults, and much labour in striving to attain an unattainable legal perfection; but no true joyes, which can only flow from the sense of God's love and pardon in Jesus Christ; beware than of Hypocrisie.
2. We may observe the ground of the offence, viz. The information he had of his brothers kind entertainment: this he guesseth at by the noise he heard of joy, but waits for further information, which he receives by one of the servants, who readily informs him of it, and fully acquaints him with the occasion.
2. We may observe the ground of the offense, viz. The information he had of his brothers kind entertainment: this he guesseth at by the noise he heard of joy, but waits for further information, which he receives by one of the servants, who readily informs him of it, and fully acquaints him with the occasion.