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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.
III. Whenever the soul doth depart, yet the Spirit of God is ever in it and with it, Psal. 73. 2. The Psalmist almost fell. Why did he not? Thou art ever with me, thy hand v. 23. hath upheld me. So that as the Spirit keeps the soul to Christ, so it keeps Christ in the soul at all times. And hence Saints in the closure of all their dealings with God, and he with them, they have seen his love, working good in all; that now the Soul can say, lo the Lord was here, and I kn•w it not , Isa. 25. 9, 10. That the soul admires sometimes, and hence after all sees the Lord more clearly and fully and sweetly, till at last it sees him in Glory. […] you see the Spirit that follows Saints is with them, which the world wants. Oh admire at the Lord, if this Spirit be given, that Heaven is come down into […] That no […], no sins can part, but its ever putting thee in thy way again. Hence when
III. Whenever the soul doth depart, yet the Spirit of God is ever in it and with it, Psal. 73. 2. The Psalmist almost fell. Why did he not? Thou art ever with me, thy hand v. 23. hath upheld me. So that as the Spirit keeps the soul to Christ, so it keeps Christ in the soul at all times. And hence Saints in the closure of all their dealings with God, and he with them, they have seen his love, working good in all; that now the Soul can say, lo the Lord was here, and I kn•w it not , Isa. 25. 9, 10. That the soul admires somtimes, and hence after all sees the Lord more clearly and fully and sweetly, till at last it sees him in Glory. 〈…〉 you see the Spirit that follows Saints is with them, which the world wants. Oh admire at the Lord, if this Spirit be given, that Heaven is come down into 〈…〉 That no 〈…〉, no sins can part, but its ever putting thee in thy way again. Hence when