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On the Parable of The Prodigal
Luke 15:11-20
'the history and the mystery'
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Here are 10 sermons
forming part of an undated series
on
The Prodigal Son
Newton records in them
a word of testimony:
'I have been this prodigal'
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Plantane Island, Sierra Leone, where Newton sank to the depths of wretchedness |
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The sermons, transcribed from Newton's Notebook No. 22 in Lambeth Palace Library, MS 2939, were perhaps preached in Olney during the period 1768-1771, for which we have no diary information.
The notebook is headed 'Vol 1' and covers Luke 15:11-20.
Somewhere, there may still be a notebook of 'Vol 2', containing the sermons on Luke 15:21-32, which Newton indicated was the better part of the parable!
We would love to know if this additional notebook is located. |
As the sermons go live, their no. will be highlighted.
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sermon |
Scripture ref |
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1 |
Luke 15:11,12 |
And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. |
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Luke 15:12 |
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. |
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Luke 15:13 |
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. |
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Luke 15:14 |
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. |
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Luke 15:15,16 |
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. |
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Luke 15:17 |
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! |
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Luke 15:17 |
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! |
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Luke 15:18,19 |
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. |
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Luke 15:20 |
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. |
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Luke 15:20 |
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. |
Acknowledgements:
Image of Plantane Island: Tom Bradley, www.tom-bradley.com
[for more of Tom's images of Plantane Island see this link]
Manuscript: Lambeth Palace Library MS 2939
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Marylynn Rouse, 03/01/2017
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