Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse

Name: Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse
Author: Samuel Willard

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 ...

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684

[6], 391, [1] p. · 92k words · Wing W2285 · ESTC R40698

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Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 9 › DOCT. III. Wicked men are mere swine.Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 9 › DOCT. III. Wicked men are meer swine.

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DOCT. III. Wicked men are mere swine.

DOCT. III. Wicked men are meer swine.

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It is certain that our Saviour by this term aims at these, and indeed they are very much alike, for,

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1. Swine love to live upon husks and draff: The coursest and meanest things best content them: Thus, give a natural man the things of this world, and let who likes it take heaven, hence it's said, their names are written in the earth, Jer. 17. 13. they aspire no higher; how like a hog did he express himself, that protested he would not change his part in Paris for a part in Paradise?

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2. They are most unprofitable as long as they live, they do no good all their life time, they clothe us not as the Sheep, nor labour for us as the Ox, &c. but are a mere charge without service: and as little good do ungodly men whiles they live in the world,

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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse

DOCT. III. Wicked men are mere swine.

DOCT. III. Wicked men are meer swine.

DOCT. IV. God many times, when he intends a Soul true good, withholds from him the thing of this world, though he long for, and lay o• after them never so earnestly.

SERMON X.

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DOCT. III. Wicked men are mere swine.

DOCT. III. Wicked men are meer swine.

DOCT. IV. God many times, when he intends a Soul true good, withholds from him the thing of this world, though he long for, and lay o• after them never so earnestly.

SERMON X.