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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.
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 ⟨p. 184⟩way off: In particular
1. Thou art far from having any will or desire to go to him for it: The unregenerate sinner, though dying, yet will not come to him for life, Job. •. 40. It is the great misery of sinful man, that he will die, Ezek. 33. 11. Why will ye die? i. e. he will do so rather than repent and return to God, and seek his grace in his way: There is bread in Egypt, but you will not go thither for it, eternal life is only for comers, but you refuse to come that you may have it.
1. Thou art far from having any will or desire to go to him for it: The unregenerate sinner, though dying, yet will not come to him for life, Job. •. 40. It is the great misery of sinful man, that he will dy, Ezek. 33. 11. Why will ye dy? i. e. he will do so rather than repent and return to God, and seek his grace in his way: There is bread in Egypt, but you will not go thither for it, eternal life is only for comers, but you refuse to come that you may have it.