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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.
1. He hath no birth day; was never born again, but lives and lies in sin: All his legal and moral duties are but splendida pecc•ta: He is the lame he was, there is no gracious change wrought in him: There is more reason to mourn over him as a dead man; than to rejoice over him as a living man; •o celebrate his funeral, than his birth: The state of nature is a state of death. Eph. 2. 1.
1. He hath no birth day; was never born again, but lives and lies in sin: All his legal and moral duties are but splendida pecc•ta: He is the lame he was, there is no gracious change wrought in him: There is more reason to mourn over him as a dead man; than to rejoyce over him as a living man; •o celebrate his funeral, than his birth: The state of nature is a state of death. Eph. 2. 1.
2. He was never weaned from the world and ⟨p. 384⟩vanities of it, but still hangs upon its breasts, seeking his contentment among creatures, and to satisfy, his appetite upon these things; His name is written in the earth, he lives upon lying vanities, cannot say as David, Psal. 131. 2. I am like a weaned Child.
2. He was never weaned from the world and ⟨p. 384⟩vanities of it, but still hangs upon its breasts, seeking his contentment among creatures, and to satisfie, his appetite upon these things; His name is written in the earth, he lives upon lying vanities, cannot say as David,