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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.
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, Isa. 1. 3. Israel doth not know, my People doth not consider. Hence that expostulation, Deut. 32. 29. They never ask that question, what they are doing, or whether their ways are tending, Pro. 7. 22,23. He g•eth after her,—as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
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, Isa. 1. 3. Israel doth not know, my People doth not consider. Hence that expostulation, Deut. 32. 29. They never ask that question, what they are doing, or whether their wayes are tending, Pro. 7. 22,23. He g•eth after her,—as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.