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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.
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?
Use, 1. Hence the joys and boastings of unregenerate men are groundless: Many talk of their hopes, and comforts, and soul satisfactions; they tell how God refreshed them at this and that time with these and those promises; nay, they have had tastes of the powers of the world to come: Alas! infatuated souls! God doth not scatter his joys promiscuously: Though men may, God will not make a needless feast.