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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.
4. He never was a conqueror over his lusts, nor got victory upon his corruptions; but remains a slave of sin and satan, led about at his pleasure, and serving divers lusts: Sin rules him, his Chains were never knocked off, nor his prison doors broken open, but he lives under the power and condemnation of sin.
4. He never was a conquerour over his lusts, nor got victory upon his corruptions; but remains a slave of sin and satan, led about at his pleasure, and serving divers lusts: Sin rules him, his Chains were never knockt off, nor his prison doors broken open, but he lives under the power and condemnation of sin.
5. He hath brought forth no fruit to God, or to his own souls comfort; is a dry heath and barren ground, a fig tree, which if it have the leaves of a profession, yet hath no fruit of sanctification; a vine, which if it bear any grapes, they are sower wild grapes; a fig-tree long waited on for fruit, and ready for that sentence, Cut it down, why cumbers it the ground, Luk. 13. 7. A piece of ground that is night unto cursing. Heb. 6. 8.
6. He never came to God for entertainment, not so much as like a stranger to ask his friendship and favour: much less as a son who had absented himself, to seek his fathers pardon; but he lieth out from him, keeps at a distance, will not come to Christ for life, Joh. 5. 40.