A59665:1328
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. 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, Deut. 29. 1, 2, 3, 4. And hence John 15. 24. and hence men think such things are done, and shall I ever be vile again, yet they become as bad as ever.
3. A man may see the Lord in his wonderful works, and glorious kingdome 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, Deut. 29. 1, 2, 3, 4. And hence Iohn 15. 24. and hence men think such things are done, and shall I ever be vile again, yet they become as bad as ever.
4. He may see the Lord Jesus yet more clearly by the letter of the Scripture, which though it brings to the saving knowledge of Christ, yet to see the Lord Jesus no otherwise then by the strength of fancy and understanding, from thence is no saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; and hence Rom. 16. 26. the Mystery of the Gospel was hid from the Jews, but now 'tis revealed to all Nations; literally, to all where it comes, savingly to some few. For between the saving knowledge of Christ in the Gospel, and palpable ignorance of him in the Gospel, there is this middle knowledge which is literal, whereby a man doth see, yet in seeing, sees ⟨p. 302⟩