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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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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.
SERMON VIII.
Vers. 15. And he went and joined himself to a Citizen in that Country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Vers. 15. And he went and joyned himself to a Citizen in that Country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
2. WE are now to consider of the sordid course which the young man took for his relief, expressed in these words. ⟨p. 108⟩When once he felt his want, he sat not still: Sense of misery will readily drive the creature to seek supply: and so far he did well: God would not have awakened sinners to sit still: but yet he takes a very wrong course, and therein he discovered his folly: As good sit still as rise to fall. The course which he took is here expressed emphatically, and set forth notably; in two things doth the misery appear which he brought upon himself by this course.
2. WE are now to consider of the sordid course which the young man took for his relief, expressed in these words. ⟨p. 108⟩When once he felt his want, he sat not still: Sense of misery will readily drive the creature to seek supply: and so far he did well: God would not have awakened sinners to sit still: but yet he takes a very wrong course, and therein he discovered his folly: As good sit still as rise to fall. The course which he took is here exprest emphatically, and set forth notably; in two things doth the misery appear which he brought upon himself by this course.