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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. They are husks when they are propounded to the soul as its adequate object: They are not food for souls, they cannot give satisfaction nor refreshment to the spiritual part of man; ⟨p. 125⟩they are neither suitable nor sufficient for that, Mat. 16. 26.
1. They are husks when they are propounded to the soul as its adequate object: They are not food for souls, they cannot give satisfaction nor refreshment to the spiritual part of man; ⟨p. 125⟩they are neither sutable nor sufficient for that, Mat. 16. 26.
2. They are husks; i. e. they are the object of low, mean, and vile spirits, they are only carnal and sensual appetites, that place their contentment in them; the basest spirited men are they that do most prize and pursue them.
3. They are husks, i. e. a truly illuminated, and savingly informed mind puts a low and inconsiderable account upon them, in comparison of those better things which the soul finds in Jesus Christ: and they plainly discover themselves in all these respects to be but husks.