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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. It beholds a glory in Christs person, for before the Lord reveals his Son to any, look what he was to the Jews he is to every man, Isai. 53. 2, 3. He is rejected and despised of […], nothing so mean as Christ, every vanity preferred above him, and men can do no other, because they see not his glory and beauty, 1 Cor. 2. 8. If they had […], &c. Therefore the Lord reveals his hidden glory to them, such as never entered into their hearts before, or into the minds of other men, which though others may talk of, yet they cannot see it in that manner as they do; it is c•••ed therefore […] light which he doth reveal, when the soul hath been viewing its own shame and filth, when all the grass and glory is withered, Is••. 40. 6. then the glory of Christ is revealed; One every way so fit and suitable to them, according to all their wants and woes, by some Sermon or other, which when the soul doth see, it usually fills the head, and heart, and eyes with […]. Oh that I have despised him so glorious! Acts 2. 36, 37. 2 Cor. 4. 5, 6. If the soul should not feel its ignorance of him, it would never esteem the ⟨p. 203⟩fight of him, but now it doth thus, and now that Glory is revealed, John 1. 14. We beheld his Glory as the Glory of the only begotten S•n. In every Truth there is a Glory which men see not, and this is called in Scripture, the finding of the Pearl, Ma•. 13. 45.
2. It beholds a glory in Christs person, for before the Lord reveals his Son to any, look what he was to the Jews he is to every man, Isai. 53. 2, 3. He is rejected and despised of , nothing so mean as Christ, every vanity preferred above him, and men can do no other, because they see not his glory and beauty,