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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.
[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.
[With the husks] The word signifies, the rinds or parings of fruits, the pods of beans, pease, &c. with which in those countries they fed their hogs: and afterwards Acorns, and such like course things were called by the same word: it here intends the things of the world, earthly things, things of this life.
[That the swine eat] i. e. Such things as earthly minded men (who are here called swine) did feed themselves withal.
[And no man gave to him] i. e. He failed in all his endeavours, he could find out no way to attain them. Hence;