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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.
Never be feasted with his special spiritual grace, never have a kid killed for him to feast it with his friends: The hypocrite never tastes one crumb of the Children's bread,
Never be feasted with his special spiritual grace, never have a kid killed for him to feast it with his friends: The hypocrite never tasts one crumb of the Childrens bread,
Reas. 1. From their incapacity; they are not in a state and condition to be feasted: joys and feasts are for the living, and not for the dead; whereas these men are not alive: they are painted sepulchres, but full of dead mens bones, they are really dead, though seemingly alive.
Reas. 2. Because the dispensation of God's special love and favour are not Legal, but Evangelical dispensations. God doth nothing for any of Adam's sinful progeny for the sake of their righteousness, but only of his free grace; as long therefore as men boast of their doings, they may do all their lives long, and God no whit regard so as to accept of them: the proud Pharisee is not justified.