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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. I. The things of this world are bu• husks.
I know some by these husks interpret to be meant, the Doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees, who would persuade a man to rest in his own righteousness: but I choose the former interpretation; and our Saviour useth this mean and opprobrious word, to show us what ⟨p. 124⟩a low and little esteem we ought to set upon earthly things. Now the things of the world may be called husks.
I know some by these husks interpret to be meant, the Doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees, who would perswade a man to rest in his own righteousness: but I chuse the former interpretation; and our Saviour useth this mean and opprobrious word, to shew us what ⟨p. 124⟩a low and little esteem we ought to set upon earthly things. Now the things of the world may be called husks.
1. Negatively, not that they are things in themselves to be contemned undervalued, or in their place and use to be despised. For,