The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

1. Some have made it common, and that this treasure may be digged out of dung-hills, that the Lord casts these Pearls to Swine, that a carnal heart may have all these gifts and graces which the righteous have, and Adam had, and perish ⟨p. 215⟩at last. And hence no evidence from it at all.

1. Some have made it common, and that this treasure may be digged out of dung-hils, that the Lord casts these Pearls to Swine, that a carnal heart may have all these gifts and graces which the righteous have, and Adam had, and perish ⟨p. 215⟩at last. And hence no evidence from it at all.

2. Some have not made it thus common, but proper to the Elect, and that none are justified but they are sanctified, and è contra. But it hath been, and they think 'tis so disguised with the mixture of sin and temptation, and cannot be known, or very hardly. If so, that though the Lord Jesus come unto his own, and dwell not only in their Houses, but in their hearts, yet they know him not.

3. Some say it may be known, but not as dwelling in our hearts, but as inherent in Christ, making the inherent Grace of Christ in Christ himself to be our Sanctification, which the Apostle makes to be our righteousness. And so as the Papists abolish Christs righteousness for justification, by making it to consist only in infusion of Grace in us; these abolish Christ to be our Sanctification, by making all our sanctification to consist in inhesion in Christ out of us.