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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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SERMON X.
Vers. 17. And when he came to himself, he said how many hired Servants of my Fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger?
The first part of the Parable, containing the Prodigal's departure from his Father, with the effects following thereupon, hath been briefly handled: The second part containing his return to his Father, with the motives to, and manner of it, is next to be considered, and is described from verse, 17. to 20 The prime and general intent whereof is to express the ordinary way and manner of the conversion of a sinner unto God: In which there are two things to be observed.
THe first part of the Parable, containing the Prodigal's departure from his Father, with the effects following thereupon, hath been briefly handled: The second part containing his return to his Father, with the motives to, and manner of it, is next to be considered, and is described from verse, 17. to 20 The prime and general intent whereof is to express the ordinary way and manner of the conversion of a sinner unto God: In which there are two things to be observed.
1. A solemn and serious deliberation with himself, vers. 17,18,19.