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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.
1 Because while the heart is in league with any creature besides the Lord, 'tis at deadly enmity with the Lord,1 James 4. 4. If a man hath a rich commodity, and one comes and offers half the worth of it, he takes it as a contempt; if it be not worth this, it is worth nothing; so the Lord is worthy of all our love, our lives, our souls though we had a thousand of them, and will a man not part with his lusts for him? I tell you the Lord takes himself slighted, contemned, and loathed; if not worth all a mans love, he is worth nothing; now the creature is made a God, because made a mans last end, which is as proper to God, as to make him the Alpha of all. Here the greatest wrath is to give a man his fill of the creature.
1 Because while the heart is in league with any creature besides the Lord, 'tis at deadly enmity with the Lord,1 Iames 4. 4. If a man hath a rich commodity, and one comes and offers half the worth of it, he takes it as a contempt; if it be not worth this, it is worth nothing; so the Lord is worthy of all our love, our lives, our souls though we had a thousand of them, and will a man not part with his lusts for him? I tell you the Lord takes himself sleighted, contemned, and loathed; if not worth all a mans love, he is worth nothing; now the creature is made a God, because made a mans last end, which is as proper to God, as to make him the Alpha of all. Here the greatest wrath is to give a man his fill of the creature.
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2 Because so long the soul cannot see,1