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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. Vile in all that he doth: Such as is the principle, such are the acts: Like tree, like fruits, Mat. 7. 16. see Job 14. 4. If he look on none but his best actions that he doth, yet here he seeth his own filthiness so deriving it self into them, that he cannot place any esteem upon them, but declare them vile things, Isa. 64.6. Filthy rags. Filthy; the word is variously translated, and by all to set out loathsome vileness. The like you have of Paul, Phil. 3.8. dung. The truly humbled soul sees no excellency in himself, which he can call his own, nor any thing done by him which is not polluted. So Paul, Rom. 7.18. In my flesh dwells no good thing. So that he dares not put his actions upon the trial, but deprecates it, as David, Psal. 14. 3. 2. Enter not into Judgment with thy servant. This is the root of Humility.
3. Vile in all that he doth: Such as is the principle, such are the acts: Like tree, like fruits, Mat. 7. 16. see Job 14. 4. If he look on none but his best actions that he doth, yet here he seeth his own filthiness so deriving it self into them, that he cannot place any esteem upon them, but declare them vile things, Isa. 64.6. Filthy rags. Filthy; the word is variously translated, and by all to set out loathsome vileness. The like you have of Paul, Phil. 3.8. dung. The truly humbled soul sees no excellency in himself, which he can call his own, nor any thing done by him which is not polluted. So Paul, Rom. 7.18. In my flesh dwells no good thing. So that he dares not put his actions upon the tryal, but deprecates it, as David,