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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
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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. II. Natural man would fain find content and satisfaction in these mean things of the World.
The young man, if he could have had his fill of husks, would have thought himself happy. It is an hard matter to persuade a blind sinner that his misery is any where else to be repaired, his great longings are to be filled with husks, to have his desires answered in the things below. This is evident,
The young man, if he could have had his fill of husks, would have thought himself happy. It is an hard matter to perswade a blind sinner that his misery is any where else to be repaired, his great longings are to be filled with husks, to have his desires answered in the things below. This is evident,
1. From the restless endeavours which natural men use for the obtaining of the things of this life: That which a mans utmost desires and endeavours are laid out about, that is that which he builds his hopes upon, and such is the world to the men of the world: All mens projects, aims and endeavours run this way, their ⟨p. 128⟩heads are always rolling, their hands and feet always moving to this; for this it is they rise up early, sit up late, wear themselves out in restless labour, that they may grasp in as much as they can of these things; yea, the Psalmist undertakes to tell us what are their inward thoughts,