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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.
3. Thoughts of impossibility and unlikelihood to get peace or pardon, or victory over sin now. For sometime the Saints think, the Lord loves me, and yet lets these evils lie here, but I can get no help now, especially if after many prayers. I know help against all sins they cannot get, and hence are humbled, but against them sins that help can be got, wherein the Lord hath done it for others, and which make the Lord estrange himself it must be had (for this temptation to a Saint is an Hypocrites overthrow) Psal. 18. 21, 22, 23. If earth cannot help, cannot Heaven? What, not the Spirit, Word, Blood, Mercy, of a render-hearted Redeemer? What though not now? yet I will not give him over.
3. Thoughts of impossibility and unlikelihood to get peace or pardon, or victory over sin now. For somtime the Saints think, the Lord loves me, and yet lets these evils lie here, but I can get no help now, especially if after many prayers. I know help against all sins they cannot get, and hence are humbled, but against them sins that help can be got, wherein the Lord hath done it for others, and which make the Lord estrange himself it must be had (for this temptation to a Saint is an Hypocrites overthrow) Psal. 18. 21, 22, 23. If earth cannot help, cannot Heaven? What, not the Spirit, Word, Bloud, Mercy, of a render-hearted Redeemer? What though not now? yet I will not give him over.
4. When Gods Providence seems to •ross his Promise, yet they will cleave to him or return to him. For many times Saints have their estates in the Bonds of Gods Promises, and hence they wait for accomplishment of them; but the Lord carries it quite cross to his promise to their seeming. He promiseth to make alive, to comfort, to sanctify, to be with me; and he kills, sads, lets out sin, never such a heart, and forsakes me. Oh now Faith shakes! yet they will not away,