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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.
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.
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 lyeth out from him, keeps at a distance, will not come to Christ for life, Joh. 5. 40.
7. Though he be a lost creature in himself, yet he was never found, but is lost still; he is yet in the wilderness, wandering upon the mountains: and whiles it is thus, what occasion can there be of special joy over him?
7. Though he be a lost creature in himself, yet he was never found, but is lost still; he is yet in the wilderness, wandring upon the mountains: and whiles it is thus, what occasion can there be of special joy over him?