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Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…
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 teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Two lines from Luke]
printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684
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USE, 4. It may counsel us all to beware how we desire to be at our own will and dispose; to be left to our selves, to have our own portion in our own hand: God may grant such unreasonable desires, but if he do, we shall smart for it: Know therefore that every Child of Adam left to himself, will prove a Prodigal: If we are not willing to be under the direction of Gods Law, and conduct of his spirit, he may righteously leave us, and then we shall certainly do as this younger Son did, which is the next thing we are to enquire into.
USE, 4. It may counsel us all to beware how we desire to be at our own will and dispose; to be left to our selves, to have our own portion in our own hand: God may grant such unreasonable desires, but if he do, we shall smart for it: Know therefore that every Child of Adam left to himself, will prove a Prodigal: If we are not willing to be under the direction of Gods Law, and conduct of his spirit, he may righteously leave us, and then we shall certainly do as this yonger Son did, which is the next thing we are to enquire into.
Vers. 13. And not many days after, the younger Son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far Country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Vers. 13. And not many dayes after, the yonger Son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far Country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
In which words is described to us the second point of his folly, appearing in his improvident and wasteful misimprovement of his Portion; and this discovers it self in two things. 1. His getting as far as he could, with his Portion, from his fathers care and inspection. 2. His improvident and foolish expense of his Estate there, where he was out of sight as he hoped.