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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.
DOCT. I. The Soul of Man, without suitable spiritual supplies must needs perish.
DOCT. I. The Soul of Man, without sutable spiritual supplies must needs perish.
There is a natural consequence of dying, upon a famine, if no relief come; and if the soul have nothing to live upon, it must needs die for ever, which might learn us.
USE, 1. Their folly who take care only for their bodies, and neglect their souls: and truly every unregenerate man is such an one; he takes heed to provide for the feeding and clothing of his body, but lays in no provision for his better part: and so much the greater is this folly, in as much as ten thousand bodily deaths are not comparable to the death or lost of a soul, Mat. 16. 26.
USE, 1. Their folly who take care only for their bodies, and neglect their souls: and truly every unregenerate man is such an one; he takes heed to provide for the feeding and clothing of his body, but layes in no provision for his better part: and so much the greater is this folly, in as much as ten thousand bodily deaths are not comparable to the death or lost of a soul, Mat. 16. 26.