...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...

...himfelf, and gave him the firft Thoughts of returning to his Father. He difcouried thus with himfelf: How many hired Servants of my Father have Bread enough, and to fpare ? And I perijb ivitb Hunger. I will arife, and go to my Father, and I will fay unto him. Father,...

...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 himself;...

...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 the soul...

...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 favoured...

...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 courage...

...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, I have 19 sinned...

...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 father...

...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, I have...