The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

And hence if ever after the whole soul should depart, the union should be broken; and hence look on a Christian when he is himself, he cannot stir, nor depart; partly by a spirit of fear, Jer. 32. 40. Like a man in a Ship, he cannot cast himself into Sea, it makes him tremble to think, what if I should fall in, and hence keeps close in the Ship, what-ever ••orms come, what-ever calms come, for he sees death before him. Oh the loss of Christ and his fellowship hereafter, nay here, is dreadful to him: Partly by a Spirit of love, it constrains us, that when the heart sometime ca•es not for Christ, yet the Spirit of love springs up: Shall I now leave him that pitied me, That brought me a Pardon, when my neck was on the block, &c.

And hence if ever after the whole soul should depart, the union should be broken; and hence look on a Christian when he is himself, he cannot stir, nor depart; partly by a spirit of fear, Ier. 32. 40. Like a man in a Ship, he cannot cast himself into Sea, it makes him tremble to think, what if I should fall in, and hence keeps close in the Ship, what-ever ••orms come, what-ever calms come, for he sees death before him. Oh the loss of Christ and his fellowship hereafter, nay here, is dreadful to him: Partly by a Spirit of love, it constrains us, that when the heart sometime ca•es not for Christ, yet the Spirit of love springs up: Shall I now leave him that pitied me, That brought me a Pardon, when my neck was on the block, &c.

II. When he doth depart by reason of some evil in his heart, yet 'tis not ever, but he must return •ooner or later to him again, it was best with him then. For look as 'tis with Satan, How doth he carry the heart from God? You shall see it in Judas,