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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse
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 ...
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.
2. But I pass to the next particular, o• the consideration of the improvident and unfrugal expense which the young man employed his Estate in; And there he wasted his substance ⟨p. 63⟩with riotous living. In which take notice: 1. What he did with his Estate, He wasted it: 2. What it was he wasted, his substance: 3. Where he wasted it, there, viz. in that far Country: 4. how he consumed it, in riotous living.
2. But I pass to the next particular, o• the consideration of the improvident and unfrugal expense which the young man imployed his Estate in; And there he wasted his substance ⟨p. 63⟩with riotous living. In which take notice: 1. What he did with his Estate, He wasted it: 2. What it was he wasted, his substance: 3. Where he wasted it, there, viz. in that far Country: 4. how he consumed it, in riotous living.
[He wasted] The word [[Greek or Hebrew]] signifies the most prodigal and unprofitable throwing away of a thing that can be: Beza thinks it to be a Metaphor from a whirlwind, that scatters and throws the chaff hither and thither: it intimates such an expense as knows no measure, nor regards any end or use, minds neither how much is, nor for what it is laid out.
[He wasted] The word [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] signifies the most prodigal and unprofitable throwing away of a thing that can be: Beza thinks it to be a Metaphor from a whirlwind, that scatters and throws the chaff hither and thither: it intimates such an expense as knowes no measure, nor regards any end or use, minds neither how much is, nor for what it is laid out.