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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
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.
DOCT. Unregenerate men are the greatest spend-thrifts; for they unprofitably wast all their substance upon their lusts.
It is not only a wast, but a riotous wast, which is the worst sort of unthriftiness in the world: We may take up the Explication of the Doctrine in a few Propositions.
1. The common favours of God are unregenerate mens substance: their wit, their health, their wealth, their privileges, &c. are their portion, which they have in hand: I mean,
1. The common favours of God are unregenerate mens substance: their wit, their health, their wealth, their priviledges, &c. are their portion, which they have in hand: I mean,
1. They are that which they place their dependence upon, the things in the improvement of which they hope to get their living; they place their confidence and trust in them, Pro. 10. 15. The rich mans wealth is his strong City. They have nothing else that their heart relies upon, they call them their goods, because they expect to have their whole good from them, they take up their rest and content under the shadow of these things.