A59665:1330
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.
5. There may be in a false heart a strange knowledge of Christ without Scriptures, which may ravish a mans […] heart strangely, which is usually the first Temptation of the Virgin-Churches, that are of much knowledge, and little love, 2 Cor. 11. 2, 3, 4. Wherein Satan doth no• seek to pull away men to forsake the Gospel, but from the simplicity of the Gospel, Repe•t, and believe, and •e […], For saith he, […] is transformed ••to an Angel of light: And hence we have heard that some have heard voices, some have seen the very blood of Christ dropping on them, and his wounds in his side, some have seen a great light shining in the Chamber, some wonderfully affected with their dreams, some in great distress have had inward witness, Thy sins ar• forgiven; and hence such liberty and joy that they are ready to leap up and down the Chamber: O adulterous genera•ion• This is natural and usual with men, they would •ain see Jesus, and have him present to give them peace; and hence Papists have his Image; and hence Christ gives the Sacrament to show himself as familiarly as can be. Hence Th• m•• would not believe, […] be might put his finger in his side, and the Lord tendered him, yet pronounced them •lessed, th•• h•ve not seen, and yet believed, Joh. 20. 29. So I say […], Woe to them that have no other manifested Christ, but such a one. Little do you think what wrong you do to Christ, for you do as much as in you lies Eclipse all his glory at the last day, as the wicked by their sins Eclipse his glory at this day. 2 The•.1. 10. He shall be admired in all that believe. Why? Because our Testimony was leeved That Faith which closeth with, and sees Christ in a Testimony, is tha whereby Jesus shall be admired at the worlds end.