Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

Name: Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Philips, 1684

[6], 391, [1] p. ; 15 cm. · 87k words · Evans 379 · Wing W2285

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Mercy Magnified ON A PENITENT Prodigal. › Sermon 9

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.

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[Have filled his belly] i.e. answered his desires, or satisfied his wants, or gotten content to his soul.

[Have filled his belly] i.e. answered his desires, or satisfied his wants, or gotton content to his soul.

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[With the husks] The word signifies, the rinds or parings of fruits, the pods of beans, pease, &c. with which in those countries they fed their hogs: and afterwards Acorns, and such like course things were called by the same word: it here intends the things of the world, earthly things, things of this life.

:301p. 123

[That the swine eat] i. e. Such things as earthly minded men (who are here called swine) did feed themselves withal.

:302p. 123

[And no man gave to him] i. e. He failed in all his endeavours, he could find out no way to attain them. Hence,

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DOCT. I. The things of this world are bu• husks.