A59665:1317
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. II.
II. A Fullness of Illumination in the room of darkness.
II. A Fulness of Illumination in the room of darkness.
BUT let it be first noted that I speak not here of Revelations of future Events. When Virgin-Churches shall fall a dreaming, 'tis a sign they fall a sleeping. Nor of revelation of new Doctrines, nor yet of the Love of Christ and assurance thereof; but of the Person of Christ, a work common to all the Elect, and not peculiar to some, for Christ may not appear in his promise of love for a time to a sincere heart, yet this is then wrought. I shall therefore express my thoughts herein in four Conclusions.
1. That all unregenerate men are under the power of darkness,1 of ignorance, Eph. 5. 8. You were darkness in the abstract, Eph. 4. 18. So that they cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God,