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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.
1. The base and sordid spirit he was reduced unto, the Citizen sent him to keep swine, but he would fain have made a swine of himself, and give himself leave to be a fellow-commoner with his hogs: Husk, and draff would now have contented him, if he might but have had his belly full of them: And would fain have f• •ed his belly, &c.
1. The base and sordid spirit he was reduced unto, the Citizen sent him to keep swine, but he would fain have made a swine of himself, and give himself leave to be a fellow-comoner with his hogs: Husk, and draff would now have contented him, if he might but have had his belly full of them: And would fain have f• •ed his belly, &c.
2. That even this poor and contemptible succour failed him: No man gave him.
[He would fain] the word signifies to covet, to lust, to long earnestly for a thing, noting the reachings and desires of carnal corruption.