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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. In a contempt of the world and things of it in comparison of these things; slighting and scarce regarding of any thing here below; only taken with heavenly things, and desirous ⟨p. 340⟩to depart and be with Christ; willing to have […] •ore to do here if might be: How can it almost be otherwise? Who can but think it good seeing, tasting, enjoying the love of God? and relishing the sweetness of the streams, to long to be at the Well head of all this? but when these treats are something over, and he go from his feast to his work, and there mee•• with difficulties, and many temptations; now he is sometimes at a ••and, his affections cooled with carnal things, and his heart distracted with worldly cares: Hence it is that we sometimes hear God calling his people back to their first love, Rev. 2. 5.
2. In a cotempt of the world and things of it in comparison of these things; slighting and scarce regarding of any thing here below; only taken with heavenly things, and desirous ⟨p. 340⟩to depart and be with Christ; willing to have 〈…〉 •ore to do here if might be: How can it almost be otherwise? Who can but think it good seeing, tasting, enjoying the love of God? and relishing the sweetness of the streams, to long to be at the Well head of all this? but when these treats are something over, and he goe from his feast to his work, and there mee•• with difficulties, and many temptations; now he is sometimes at a ••and, his affections cooled with carnal things, and his heart distracted with worldly cares: Hence it is that we sometimes hear God calling his people back to their first love, Rev. 2. 5.