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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
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3. It cuts off a Christian from all hope of glory, how many be there that scramble and catch at Christ, and every one saith he is mine, The proud man saith, he is mine, and hopes now verily to be saved, but that hope is vain; they have Christ out of them, but where is Christ in them? The life of Christ, and the Spirit of Christ? Col. 1. 27. Christ in you, the hope of glory.
4. Give me but one place in all the Book of God, where blessedness is bestowed upon, or conveyed unto any, or promised but to such as have these grace•. Blessed is he that feareth the Lord, and greatly delighteth, &c. Psal. 112. 1, 2. If there be no such thing, let any man expect it if he can.
II. The Causes.
1. A magnifying Christ, and making him our Sanctification, when as you heard the last day, this is to deny him to be our Sanctification: He becomes our righteousness by imputation of his holiness, and our Sanctification by infusing of it. Nay, hence a man deprive himself, of all good in the Lord Jesus, when a man denies all grace in himself, and then flies for Sanctuary unto Jesus Christ,