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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.
The famine deciphers to us the deficiency or ⟨p. 86⟩of spiritual supplies, or of Soul-food: Where as it is said, that then it arose, we must take notice that things are many times described according to appearance, and not reality: This spiritual famine was there before, but the young man, as long as he had something of his own, minded it not, but now when all was spent he began to feel it: The substance of this Allegory is, that a distressed sinner shall find that the world hath no relief for his soul; if a man feel anguish and misery coming upon him, and go to the world for help, he shall find nothing there but want and distress; all the world cannot ease an oppressed soul. For further Explication, Consider.
The famine deciphers to us the deficiency or ⟨p. 86⟩of spiritual supplyes, or of Soul-food: Where as it is said, that then it arose, we must take notice that things are many times described according to appearance, and not reality: This spiritual famine was there before, but the young man, as long as he had something of his own, minded it not, but now when all was spent he began to feel it: The substance of this Allegory is, that a distressed sinner shal find that the world hath no relief for his soul; if a man feel anguish and misery coming upon him, and go to the world for help, he shal find nothing there but want and distress; all the world cannot ease an oppressed soul. For further Explication, Consider.
1. The natural man, standing at a great distance from God hath no other hope or help to take to in his distress but the world: This far Country is the place which this sinner dwells in, and therefore here he must look for his succour; he hath by his own grievous folly, put himself under the necessity, either to find relief from the world, or else to perish; i.e. he knows no other way.
1. The natural man, standing at a great distance from God hath no other hope or help to take to in his distress but the world: This far Country is the place which this sinner dwels in, and therefore here he must look for his succour; he hath by his own grievous folly, put himself under the necessity, either to find relief from the world, or else to perish; i.e. he knows no other way.