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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.
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.
2. Because of their ignorance of the ways of God: they are above them, and they cannot see into them: Ignorance and a good opinion of themselves, meeting together, is the reason of all the mis-judging of carnal men: Through self-conceit they argue thus, that because they cannot see the reason, therefore there is none; as if we were bound to confess that the sun shineth not, because a blind man sees it not: Wisdom is too high for a fool, therefore he condemneth it of folly.