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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.
USE, 2. Let it then awaken us all to lay out our time, strength, and care about better things; be not content with this world: If these things are no better than husks, leave them to swine, if you are men, seek mans meat. Consider,
1. There are better things: There is a better happiness to be had from God in Christ, tendered to you in the Gospel, than all you can hope for in the world, Psal. 144. ult. Happy is that People, whose God is the Lord.
2. We are commanded to make these better things the object of our pursuit, Joh. 6. 27. Labour ⟨p. 127⟩not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth to everlasting life. Hence there is hope that we may obtain it, if we diligently seek it.
2. We are commanded to make these better things the object of our pursuit, Joh. 6. 27. Labour ⟨p. 127⟩not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth to everlasting life. Hence there is hope that we may obtain it, if wediligently seek it.