A59665:1327
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.
2. If any man should see and behold Christ really, immediately, this is not the saving knowledge of him. I know the Saints do know Christ as if immediately present, they are not strangers by their distance, if others have seen him more immediately I will not dispute it, but if they have seen the Lord Jesus as immediately as if here on earth, yet Capernaum saw him so; nay, some of them were Disciples for a time, and followed him, John 6. and yet the Lord was hid from their eyes; nay all the world shall see him in his glory which shall amaze them, and yet this is far short of the saving knowledge of him, which the Lord doth communicate to the Elect. So that though you see the Lord so really as that you become familiar with him, yet Luke 13. 26. Lord have we not eat and drunk, &c. And so perish.
2. If any man should see and behold Christ really, immediatly, this is not the saving knowledge of him. I know the Saints do know Christ as if immediatly present, they are not strangers by their distance, if others have seen him more immediatly I will not dispute it, but if they have seen the Lord Jesus as immediatly as if here on earth, yet Capernaum saw him so; nay, some of them were Disciples for a time, and followed him, Iohn 6. and yet the Lord was hid from their eyes; nay all the world shall see him in his glory which shall amaze them, and yet this is far short of the saving knowledge of him, which the Lord doth communicate to the Elect. So that though you see the Lord so really as that you become familiar with him, yet Luke 13. 26. Lord have we not eat and drunk, &c. And so perish.
3. A man may see the Lord in his wonderful works, and glorious kingdom and government, and yet not know him savingly, wondrous deliverances, preservations of himself, and of Gods people, dreadful destruction of enemies, such as they cannot but say, This is the finger of the Lord, and yet know not,