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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. 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, Psal. 131. 2. I am like a weaned Child.
3. He is not married to Christ; his league with sin and satan was never broken, he was never dead to the law that he might be united to a Saviour: How should there be a marriage feast without a marriage? Christ indeed hath wooed him; but he never gave his consent, nor will leave playing the harlot with other lovers; never embraced that call, Jer. 3. 2. […]
3. He is not married to Christ; his league with sin and satan was never broken, he was never dead to the law that he might be united to a Saviour: How should there be a marriage feast without a marriage? Christ indeed hath woed him; but he never gave his consent, nor will leave playing the harlot with other lovers; never embraced that call, Jer. 3. 2. 〈…〉