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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. An ignorant preferring of the worst things before the best: because he knows not the worth of things, but follows his own fancy, therefore his bauble is of greatest worth and excellency: If things shine, and make a fair ⟨p. 140⟩show, they are the things in his account: He judgeth of things not by their worth, but by appearance: Such are unregenerate men, the little things, the trifles of this world, the shining glories of it, only win credit with them, and they incomparably prefer them to the glory of another world: A little earthly pelf is better than all the treasures of Heaven, a little frothy pleasure is more worth than everlasting joys, the worlds applause out-weighs the Crown of Glory in their esteem: They call good evil, they see no excellency in God and his ways, Isa. 5. 20. Job 21. 13, 14.
1. An ignorant preferring of the worst things before the best: because he knows not the worth of things, but follows his own fancy, therefore his bauble is of greatest worth and excellency: If things shine, and make a fair ⟨p. 140⟩shew, they are the things in his account: He judgeth of things not by their worth, but by appearance: Such are unregenerate men, the little things, the trifles of this world, the shining glories of it, only win credit with them, and they incomparably preferr them to the glory of another world: A little earthly pelf is better than all the treasures of Heaven, a little frothy pleasure is more worth than everlasting joyes, the worlds applause out-weighs the Crown of Glory in their esteem: They call good evil, they see no excellency in God and his wayes, Isa. 5. 20. Job 21. 13, 14.