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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. 2. It is the disposition of false and hypocritical Professors to be finding fault with God's dispensations of providence.
The fathers dealings seem very irregular and unrighteous to his eldest son: This was the frame of that self-cheating people, Isa. 58. 2. They think God doth them wrong: thus it was with Cain, he counted himself injured, because his brother was accepted before him; yea, it was too common a thing among the J•w• to say, God's ways are not equal, Ezek. 18. 25.—29: &c.
The fathers dealings seem very irregular and unrighteous to his eldest son: This was the frame of that self-cheating people, Isa. 58. 2. They think God doth them wrong: thus it was with Cain, he counted himself injured, because his brother was accepted before him; yea, it was too common a thing among the J•w• to say, God's wayes are not equal, Ezek. 18. 25.—29: &c.