...Confideration ufually the firft Step to Repentance. LUKE xv. 17, 1 8. And when he came to himfelf, he faid, How many hired Servants of my Father have Bread enough, and to j pare, and I pert/Jy with Hunger ! I -will arife and go to my Father. SER M. IV. p. 85. Preached before...

...regain his Father s Love, if not as a Son, yet as a Servant. And when he came to himjelf, he fald, how many hired Servants of my Father have Bread enough and to fyare, and I perijh with Hunger ! I will arije and go to my Father. Seeing then, that the Want of Confederation...

...sanctified, beginning to repent and return to God. Ver. 17. " And when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger !" " He came to himself" — remarkable expression ! He had been beside...

...necessities of nature required," whilst he was denied the very husks which the swine did eat: — " How many hired servants of *' my father have bread enough and to spare, *' and I perish with hunger !" Can there be a more natural reflection to HS \vhat passes in...

...day of his innocence he had maintained the relation and experienced the tender treatment of a Son. How many hired servants of my Father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! This reflexion leads him to sigh for a restoration to his dear and...

...would have been into" lerable, my tears flowed fast, while I cried out in " the bitterness of my soul, How many hired servants ?' of my father have bread enough, and to spare, and I " perish with hunger. This text appeared a kind of " answer to my prayer, and gave me...

...all his substance in rioting and debauchery, as soon as he came to himself, began thus to reason : "How many hired servants of my father have bread enough^ and to spare, and I perish with hunger !" While he was yet a great \vay off, and still liable to perish, the...

...which the swine were 17 eating, as nobody gave him any thing. At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger? 181 will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father,...

...swine did eat ; until, fifthly, He came to himself and then he said, I will arise and go to my father. How many hired servants of my father, have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. This consideration determined him to return, and to make a full confession...

...the husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him ; and when he came unto himself, he said, how many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger? I will arise and go to my father, and I will say unto him, father,...