The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

So that its Christs person that this Faith first pitcheth on, as 'tis in Marriage, and those that come for this, were never sent away. Now the soul is truly come to him for himself: 1. When himself gives rest to the soul in the want of all things, […]. 4. 3. If friends, protection, strength, life, glory be wanting, yet having him, in him I have all these; when all is sold away, not the treasure only, but the Field contents him: For it looks on this, as better then heaven, then glory, it comforts the soul that the Lord himself should be mine. 2. The soul that taketh him, 'tis not only to make boast of him, as […] had him, nor to cover sloth, and sin, and delusion by him: I have Christ, and I have no more to care for, &c. but to live on him, John 6. 57. He that ea•eth me, shall live by me. Phil. 3. 9, 10. A man takes not Christ as Medicine to ease him; nor as stately hanging• to adom him, but as bread to receive life from him. For many receive Christ, […] they do upon him, and rest they say in him, but they do not suck any good ⟨p. 308⟩from him, nay before they had any Christ or assurance of him they were better than now. You have nothing to do with the Lord Jesus, you are our of your place. As in I••hams parable, the Olive and Vine would not be pulled out of their places, to be set on the top• of other trees, as Kings; lest they lose their fatness and sweetness: So since you have closed with Christ, you have lost your fatness and sweetness that once you had, you are now out of your place, go to your horrors and sorrows again, till the Lord so give himself to you as that you may receive life from him.

So that its Christs person that this Faith first pitcheth on, as 'tis in Marriage, and those that come for this, were never sent away. Now the soul is truly come to him for himself: 1. When himself gives rest to the soul in the want of all things, 〈…〉. 4. 3. If friends, protection, strength, life, glory be wanting, yet having him, in him I have all these; when all is sold away, not the treasure only, but the Field contents him: For it looks on this, as better then heaven, then glory, it comforts the soul that the Lord himself should be mine. 2. The soul that taketh him, 'tis not only to make boast of him, as had him, nor to cover sloth, and sin, and delusion by him: I have Christ, and I have no more to care for, &c. but to live on him,