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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.
1. The base and sordid spirit he was reduced unto, the Citizen sent him to keep swine, but he would fain have made a swine of himself, and give himself leave to be a fellow-commoner with his hogs: Husk, and draff would now have contented him, if he might but have had his belly full of them: And would fain have filled his belly, &c.
1. The base and sordid spirit he was reduced unto, the Citizen sent him to keep swine, but he would fain have made a swine of himself, and give himself leave to be a fellow-comoner with his hogs: Husk, and draff would now have contented him, if he might but have had his belly full of them: And would fain have filled his belly, &c.
2. That even this poor and contemptible succour failed him: No men gave him.
[He would fain] the word signifies to covet, to lust, to long earnestly for a thing, noting the reachings and desires of carnal corruption.
[Have filled his belly] i. e. answered his desires, or satisfied his wants, or gotten content to his soul.