A59665:1107
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. I.
2. The Inward Principle, wherein lies the second Difference which is plainly expressed.
2. THe Inward Principle, wherein lies the second Difference which is plainly expressed.
We are now to inquire further concerning these Vessels and the Oil in them. Vessels were the place only of receiving and preserving the oil for the continual burning and shining of the Lamps: So that though in some Scriptures, by Lamp is understood both the Vessel and the Lamp by a Figure, yet in distinct Phrase of Speech, that is properly the Lamp which burns and gives light, and that which contains the oil to nourish this is the Vessel: So that the Vessels were not separate things from the Lamp, as though the Lamp was in one hand, and a Vessel in the other; this was neither the custom, nor comeliness of that age to cumber themselves thus; but the Lamp (as 'tis in ours) was that part which was kindled and lighted, the Vessel that ⟨p. 168⟩which kept the oil to serve this end: And hence the folly of five of them appeared, that they would carry burning Lamps with empty Vessels; just as if a man should draw the wick through the oil that it may burn for a time, and provide no oil in the Vessel to maintain the Lamp; however all comes to one (if they be separate) in respect of that that I aim at.