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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.
He gives them their Portion, and lets them go and do what they will with it: gratifies their sinful desires by giving them what they would have, and leaving them to take such courses in the improving thereof, as their own cursed inclination leads them to. In the Explication of this truth, we may consider. 1. The evidence that it is so. 2. Answer some doubts about it. 3. Give the reasons of the Doctrine.
He gives them their Portion, and lets them go and do what they will with it: gratifies their sinful desires by giving them what they would have, and leaving them to take such courses in the improveing thereof, as their own cursed inclination leads them to. In the Explication of this truth, we may consider. 1. The evidence that it is so. 2. Answer some doubts about it. 3. Give the reasons of the Doctrine.
1. For the evidencing of the truth we may Consider.
1. That all the affairs of the world are ordered & disposed of by Divine Providence. Whatsoever any of the Children of men have or enjoy, it is of God. The universal extent of the Providence of God to all affairs, and things in the world, is a principle whereof there is no liberty for any man to make a question, the denial whereof, even in the sound judgment of Mere Ethnics was branded with the deserved note of Atheism: and the confirmation of this truth is fully established in Scripture, assigning to all Creatures an absolute dependence upon the disposal hereof: See Psal. 145. 15,16. The ⟨p. 32⟩eyes all wait upon thee &c. and in many other places.