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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. III. Wicked men are mere swine.
DOCT. III. Wicked men are meer swine.
It is certain that our Saviour by this term aims at these, and indeed they are very much alike, for,
1. Swine love to live upon husks and draff: The coursest and meanest things best content them: Thus, give a natural man the things of this world, and let who likes it take heaven, hence it's said, their names are written in the earth, Jer. 17. 13. they aspire no higher; how like a hog did he express himself, that protested he would not change his part in Paris for a part in Paradise?
2. They are most unprofitable as long as they live, they do no good all their life time, they clothe us not as the Sheep, nor labour for us as the Ox, &c. but are a mere charge without service: and as little good do ungodly men whiles they live in the world,