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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.
This the father thinks enough to silence all the grumblings of his discontented son, vers. 32. What cause there is of joy at such time, hath been expressed under a former Doctrine, that there is none before, may in a word be cleared, from the consideration of what every sinner is before conversion. I confess men may differ in many things of an inferior nature, one may be better morally disposed than another, one may have more restraining grace, a more affable nature, carry it more obediently to his Parents, be more reformed, &c. than another: But in this the state of all unregenerate men before conversion is alike, viz. that they are,
This the father thinks enough to silence all the grumblings of his discontented son, vers. 32. What cause there is of joy at such time, hath been expressed under a former Doctrine, that there is none before, may in a word be cleared, from the consideration of what every sinner is before conversion. I confess men may differ in many things of an inferiour nature, one may be better morally disposed than another, one may have more restraining grace, a more affable nature, carry it more obediently to his Parents, be more reformed, &c. than another: But in this the state of all unregenerate men before conversion is alike, viz. that they are,
1. Dead creatures, under the power of spiritual death, rotting in the grave of sin; we do not use to rejoice over our dead Children and relations, but to weep and mourn. They can do nothing for God, nor for their own souls Salvation; they cannot glorify him, &c.
1. Dead creatures, under the power of spiritual death, rotting in the grave of sin; we do not use to rejoyce over our dead Children and relations, but to weep and mourn. They can do nothing for God, nor for their own souls Salvation; they cannot glorifie him, &c.