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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.
1. The natural enmity of the wicked against the Godly, makes them to grieve at all their prosperity which they partake in: Wicked ⟨p. 363⟩men are of the evil one; who, next to God himself, hates his Children; and as there is war betwixt Christ and the Devil, so also there is opposition betwixt their seed: There is a spirit of envy in the nature of fallen man, Jam 4. 5. It hath for its objects persons and things: The persons whom it most expresseth it self against are the People of God, because they are not of them, Joh. 15. 19. And the things are, all their prosperity so far as they apprehend it: Sorrow and misery is not envied, at that they can rejoice, and say, Aha! so would we have it: But their prosperity, the singular favours of God, their comfort, their hopes, their professed assurance; these they cannot bear, and hence they are spitefully enraged, and gnash their teeth, Psal. 112. 8. 9, 10.
1. The natural enmity of the wicked against the Godly, makes them to grieve at all their prosperity which they partake in: Wicked ⟨p. 363⟩men are of the evil one; who, next to God himself, hates his Children; and as there is war betwixt Christ and the Devil, so also there is opposition betwixt their seed: There is a spirit of envy in the nature of fallen man, Jam 4. 5. It hath for its objects persons and things: The persons whom it most expresseth it self against are the People of God, because they are not of them, Joh. 15. 19. And the things are, all their prosperity so far as they apprehend it: Sorrow and misery is not envied, at that they can rejoyce, and say, Aha! so would we have it: But their prosperity, the singular favours of God, their comfort, their hopes, their professed assurance; these they cannot bear, and hence they are spitefully enraged, and gnash their teeth, Psal. 112. 8. 9, 10.