A59665:1092
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.
4. Consider if after admonition again and again, yet you nourish sloth, there is some heavy stroke near thee. Believe it, he will not alway bear with thy neglect. As nothing joys him more than your company, so nothing cuts him more than your neglect: But though he save you from eternal misery, yet sometimes your greatest comfort is lost by this means, Mat. 26. 38, 40, 44, 45. First he stirs them up once and again, then leaves them, and comes again, and saith nothing, but the third time, sleep on, the Son of man is betrayed. So your comfort, and Christ and his presence are betrayed. Some have had their husbands, wives, children estates gone, but which is worst of all, the Lord betrayed, the comfort of their hearts gone, and hence horrors and fears surprise them.
4. Consider if after admonition again and again, yet you nourish sloath, there is some heavy stroke neer thee. Believe it, he will not alway bear with thy neglect. As nothing joyes him more than your company, so nothing cuts him more than your neglect: But though he save you from eternal misery, yet sometimes your greatest comfort is lost by this means, Mat. 26. 38, 40, 44, 45. First he stirs them up once and again, then leaves them, and comes again, and saith nothing, but the third time, sleep on, the Son of man is betrayed. So your comfort, and Christ and his presence are betraied. Some have had their husbands, wives, children estates gone, but which is worst of all, the Lord betraied, the comfort of their hearts gone, and hence horrours and fears surprize them.
III. Motives to us especially in this Country.
III. Motives to us especially in this Countrey.