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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.
Ask the Lord himself, he will profess though many wants and weaknesses in them, nay, though sometimes they are weary and neglect him, fall and soil themselves, yet Isai. 43. 21. This people have I formed for my self: Vessels formed and fitted of God only for his glory.
Ask the Lord himself, he will profess though many wants and weaknesses in them, nay, though sometimes they are weary and neglect him, fall and soil themselves, yet Isai. 43. 21. This people have I formed for my self: Vessels formed and fitted of God onely for his glory.
1. Because all the creatures in the world are theirs, and servants to them,1 and therefore they are for the Lord only, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. If the more we took care for, and set our hearts upon the creature, if the more we were conversant with it, the more we should have, and the better we should live; Or if they should not serve us, unless we did first bow down our knees to worship them, and our backs to bear them; Then seeing the world lives by catching, we might then dis-robe and dis-throne our souls, and care more for these things, and less for the Lord; love these things more, and the Lord less; but the Lord Jesus having taken all care for his people, and bearing more love to them, and having more care of them than themselves, and therefore having given all creatures in the heavens, sea and dry land to serve them, they ought to be, and are only for him, Hos. 2. 21, 23. When a man is the seed of God, and born for him, Now all creatures serve him; hence 1 Tim. 6. 17, 18