A59665:1307
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.
IV. That no unregenerate man ever had such a measure of humiliation, as ascended to, and ended in this, though he may have all that Humiliation which is precedent unto this. As,
1. The Lord may arm first some few, and then many of the sins of their lives upon them, so as they may feel the most intolerable burden of them; not only to stand convinced they are most grievous sinners, but to shed many tears; nay, to be sore troubled and distressed, oh the heavy wrath that lies upon my soul! Thus Saul, 1 Sam. 28. 15. And hence many make heavy complaints, oh the Lord hears me not! Send for Moses, saith Pharaoh. My sin is gr•••er than I can •ear, saith Cain. Nay, not only so, but they may feel more terrors •han many of the Saints, as the damned now; for the Lord lays this burden upon his peoples backs in measure, but the Lord empties out the whole sack upon them, and the ground of this is but the sting of sin, or the gnawings of particular sins in the Conscience, not the burden of the sin of nature as yet.
1. The Lord may arm first some few, and then many of the sins of their lives upon them, so as they may feel the most intollerable burthen of them; not only to stand convinced they are most grievous sinners, but to shed many tears; nay, to be sore troubled and distressed, oh the heavy wrath that lies upon my soul! Thus Saul, 1 Sam. 28. 15. And hence many make heavy complaints, oh the Lord hears me not! Send for Moses, saith Pharaoh. My sin is gr•••er than I can •ear, saith Cain. Nay, not only so, but they may feel more terrors •han many of the Saints, as the damned now; for the Lord lays this burthen upon his peoples backs in measure, but the Lord empties out the whole sack upon them, and the ground of this is but the sting of sin, or the gnawings of particular sins in the Conscience, not the burthen of the sin of nature as yet.