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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
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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.
3. From the miserable complaint which they make when they lose these things: they are presently undone, their gods are taken from them, their hopes vanish, and they begin to despair; they now think all joy is departed, and they must never expect to see good day more; their bladders are pricked, and now they sink: And did not men lean their weight upon those things, they would not so anxiously perplex their souls at the loss of them.
3. From the miserable complaint which they make when they lose these things: they are presently undone, their gods are taken from them, their hopes vanish, and they begin to despair; they now think all joy is departed, and they must never expect to see good day more; their bladders are prickt, and now they sink: And did not men lean their weight upon those things, they would not so anxioussy perplex their souls at the loss of them.
Reason. 1. From the sensuality which possesseth ⟨p. 129⟩the heart of every natural man: Man i become a slave to his sense, whence it comes to pass that he is persuaded to judge these thing to be most suitable for him: sin having thrown all out of order; sense is now gotten above reason; hence, as swine run after husks, because they suit their nature, and are proper for their kind, so natural men find and taste a sensitive sweetness in the things of the world, and that makes them to say, Happy is the People that is in such a case. Psal. 144, ult.
Reason. 1. From the sensuality which possesseth ⟨p. 129⟩the heart of every natural man: Man i become a slave to his sense, whence it comes to pass that he is perswaded to judge these thing to be most sutable for him: sin having thrown all out of order; sense is now gotten above reason; hence, as swine run after husks, because they sute their nature, and are proper for their kind, so natural men find and taste a sensitive sweetness in the things of the world, and that makes them to say, Happy is the People that is in such a case.