N00302:113
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
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.
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.
In which words is described to us the second point of his folly, appearing in his improvident and wastful missimprovment 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.
1. We are to observe his getting as far away, with his portion, as he could, from his fathers care and oversight, in which there are three things observable. 1. The hast that he makes expressed in these words, not many days after. 2. that he takes all with him: He gathered all together. 3. The place whither he carried it, into a far Country. I begin with the first.
1. We are to observe his getting as far away, with his portion, as he could, from his fathers care and oversight, in which there are three things observable. 1. The hast that he makes expressed in these words, not many dayes after. 2. that he takes all with him: He gathered all together. 3. The place whither he carried it, into a farr Countrey. I begin with the first.