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The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied
The parable of the ten virgins opened & applied being the substance of divers sermons on Matth. 25, I-13 wherein the difference between the sincere Christian and the ... hypocrite ... are clearly discovered ... / by Thomas Shepherd ; now published from the authors own notes ... by Jonathan Mitchell ... Tho. Shepherd, son to the reverend author ...The parable of the ten virgins opened & applied being the substance of divers sermons on Matth. 25, I-13 wherein the difference between the sincere Christian and the ... hypocrite ... are clearly discovered ... / by Thomas Shephard ; now published from the authours own notes ... by Jonathan Mitchell ... Tho. Shephard, son to the reverend author ...
London: printed by J. Hayes for John Rothwell, 1660
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.
SECT. III.
Idolatry is called Whoredom in Scripture, and this is one thing,1 the ⟨p. 12⟩Soul must be Divorced from, before it can be matched to the Lord, Hos. 2. 2. I shall not need to press this here; but there are two other things which I shall show, for there are two things that every man doth before he is espoused to the Lord Jesus; either first he departs and goes a whoring by unlawfully lusting after the creature, Psal. 73. 27. James 4. 4. Or 2. He is lawfully married as he thinks unto the Law,