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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.
Reas. 1. Negatively; not because God doth any wrong, for he who is the judge of the whole earth cannot but do that which is right, though he often acts sovereignly, yet he never acts injuriously: he will plead his cause and vindicate it one day, to the silencing of all those who now seek to impute injustice to him.
Reas. 1. Negatively; not because God doth any wrong, for he who is the judge of the whole earth cannot but de that which is right, though he often acts soveraignly, yet he never acts injuriously: he will plead his cause and vindicate it one day, to the silencing of all those who now seek to impute injustice to him.
Positively: The ground of it is,
Reas. 2. Because Hypocrites judge of things only by outward appearance, and that cannot be righteous Judgement: the causes of Gods providence are many times obscure, but never ⟨p. 371⟩irregular: He that looks upon the outward face of things may be amazed, but he that beholds that an all-wise hand of God doth all, will suspend, his Judgement, and wait till the time when all things shall be made clear.
Reas. 2. Because Hypocrites judge of things only by outward appearance, and that cannot be righteous Judgement: the causes of Gods providence are many times obscure, but never ⟨p. 371⟩irregular: He that looks upon the outward face of things may be amazed, but he that beholds that an al-wise hand of God doth all, will suspend, his Judgement, and wait till the time when all things shall be made clear.