A59665:1059
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.
it may be some of you do not only neglect the Lord in means, but when the Lord comes to you in means and quickens your hearts and kindles many resolutions in you; you neglect the Lord, all dyes again, oh it is the world! know your estates by this.
it may be some of you do not only neglect the Lord in means, but when the Lord comes to you in means and quic•ens your hearts and kindles many resolutions in you; you neglect the Lord, all dyes again, oh it is the world! know your estates by this.
3. Those that depart from God in the neglect of means, because they find no good, and do not feel themselves a whit the better for them; they neglect this trade, because they find it a gainless trade: For thus God executes his eternal rejection upon many a soul: As it was with Saul, it was one of the last Vials God poured out upon him, 1 Sam. 28. 5, 6, 15. saith he, I am sore distressed, and the Lord answers me not by •rim nor by Thummin, and therefore am I come to thee; let a Devil comfort me if God will not: So many a soul having committed some sin that lies glowing on the Conscience, is sore troubled, and first it goes to the Lord, and the Lord answers not, there is silence in heaven, and ⟨p. 160⟩in all means, but the noise of fears within; now at last the soul doth not forsake the Lord for Satan plainly, but what means can comfort them that they seek for, and in time a man is weary of waiting at Gods gate•, and hence a form of duties, and prayers, and custom of devotion is kept to quiet the conscience; but they are not restless for the gain of them, for the Lord in them: they think 'tis in vain, to no profit, as those in