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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.
2. This particular application of the truth to our selves, is the work of consideration; this lets in the first distinct light into the soul, whereby it is made privy to its own state, and stirred up to seek the bettering of it: Consideration then may be thus described,. It is a deliberate pondering of such things as nearly concern us, giving credit to them, and drawing useful practical conclusions from them. All this is implied in the word, He said: Consideration is an inward discourse, or ratiocination: but more particularly.
2. This particular application of the truth to our selves, is the work of consideration; this lets in the first distinct light into the soul, whereby it is made privy to its own state, and stirred up to seek the bettering of it: Consideration then may be thus described,. It is a deliberate pondering of such things as nearly concern us, giving credit to them, and drawing useful practical conclusions from them. All this is implyed in the word, He said: Consideration is an inward discourse, or ratiocination: but more particularly.
1. The act it self is a deliberate pondering in the mind: called Communing with the heart, Psal 4. 4. The mind of man is naturally roving, consideration fixeth it; it is compared to chewing the cud, wherein the food is turned over and over: It is a looking upon, and into a thing with diligent inspection, it is called, a laying a thing to heart, Isa. 42. 25. which is a close and serious minding and weighing it.
2. The matter which it is conversant about, is such things as nearly concern us: It is every ones work to look to the concerns of his own ⟨p. 160⟩