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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. The things which thou seekest to and relyest upon for thy relief, they are not bread: They will not feed and support a dying soul: the worlds fairest banquets are but a show, and have no substance in them, they are husks, Swines, but not mans meat: Dost thou trust in riches? They will not profit in the day of wrath. Dost thou rely upon friends? They cannot by any means redeem thy soul. Dost thou content thy self in pleasures? Thou art dead alive. Dost thou feed thy self with honours? neither they nor thou can abide, but thou art like the beasts that perish. Strip thy self out of these things, for God will else strip thee shortly; and then see what a forlorn estate thou art in: Thy hungry soul is put off with a stone for bread, and for a fish, a serpent; and all thy hopes here are perishing hopes, and when they leave thee, thou must perish too.
3. The things which thou seekest to and relyest upon for thy relief, they are not bread: They will not feed and support a dying soul: the worlds fairest banquets are but a shew, and have no substance in them, they are husks, Swines, but not mans meat: Dost thou trust in riches? They will not profit in the day of wrath. Dost thou rely upon friends? They cannot by any means redeem thy soul. Dost thou content thy self in pleasures? Thou art dead alive. Dost thou feed thy self with honours? neither they nor thou can abide, but thou art like the beasts that perish. Strip thy self out of these things, for God will else strip thee shortly; and then see what a forlorn estate thou art in: Thy hungry soul is put off with a stone for bread, and for a fish, a serpent; and all thy hopes here are perishing hopes, and when they leave thee, thou must perish too.
4. Jesus Christ only hath that bread which can satisfy thy hunger, and save thy life; but thou art at an everlasting distance from him, thou art in a far Country a great ⟨p. 184⟩way off: In particular
4. Jesus Christ only hath that bread which can satisfie thy hunger, and save thy life; but thou art at an everlasting distance from him, thou art in a farr Country a great