A59665:1047
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.
And yet 3. Are comforted in this, that they have them, though they see no God in them, taste little sweetness, receive little power from them, and hope to go to Heaven at next remove, that have come so far for these, &c. I would to God it were so. But oh consider,
And yet 3. Are comforted in this, that they have them, though they see no God in them, tast little sweetnesse, receive little power from them, and hope to go to Heaven at next remove, that have come so far for these, &c. I would to God it were so. But oh consider,
1. If you improve them not, thy coming hither is but the discovery of thy hypocrisy to men and Angels, for this is the stage wherein the most fine-spun hypocrisy and real sincerity shall act its part.
1. If you improve them not, thy coming hither is but the discovery of thy hypocrisie to men and Angels, for this is the stage wherein the most fine-spun hypocrisie and real sincerity shall act its part.
2. Nay thou art so far from being blessed in having them thus, that Gods fiercest plagues shall here approach thy dwelling. The Ark among the Philistines, made the Lord plague the Philistines.
2. Nay thou art so far from being blessed in having them thus, that Gods fiercest plagues shall here approach thy dwelling. The Arke among the Philistims, made the Lord plague the Philistims.