Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

2. In the choice which they make: And this follows upon the former: a crazed understanding, accompanied with a perverted will, makes a mad-man. It was a rule of old to try a fool by his choice, presenting him some gay nothing, and some other thing of worth: Thus every unregenerate man sitting under the Gospel, hath Heaven and Earth set before him, fading vanities and everlasting mercies; and he chooseth these poor things, and leaves those other, he runs away with the world, and the contemptible things of it, and scorns the profess of Grace and Glory, chooseth a lump of earth ather than a Crown of Stars: The great things of the Law are counted strange things; the little things of the world are excellent things, Isa. 66: 3: They have chosen their own ways.

2. In the choise which they make: And this follows upon the former: a crazed understanding, accompanied with a perverted will, makes a mad-man. It was a rule of old to try a fool by his choise, presenting him some gay nothing, and some other thing of worth: Thus every unregenerate man sitting under the Gospel, hath Heaven and Earth set before him, fading vanities and everlasting mercies; and he chuseth these poor things, and leaves those other, he runs away with the world, and the contemptible things of it, and scorns the pross••s of Grace and Glory, chuseth a lump of earth ather than a Crown of Stars: The great things of the Law are counted strange things; the little things of the world are excellent things, Isa. 66: 3: They have chosen their own wayes.

3. They are indiscreet and inconsiderate in all they do; fools deliberate not of their actions; they neither ask a reason, nor ponder of the event, but go headlong and precipitant into all, Pro. 27. 12. The simple pass on: just so do unregenerate men; they ponder not any of their paths, but are led blindfold after their lusts,