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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. 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.
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 inhaesion in Christ out of us.
4. Some say there is a sanctification in us, But wherein doth it consist? Not in any habitual Holiness, or Graces in us, but in the immediate actings of Christ in us, and so the Lord makes his Music without any strings, and reveals things to us without eyes, and makes us live without any power of life: And so after justification they put a Christian in such an estate of Sanctification as that he is a mee• Patient, in next disposition to move if he be moved: Like a weather-Cock, which hath no power at all to move, but as the wind blows it, good or bad.
4. Some say there is a sanctification in us, But wherein doth it consist? Not in any habitual Holiness, or Graces in us, but in the immediate actings of Christ in us, and so the Lord makes his Musick without any strings, and reveals things to us without eyes, and makes us live without any power of life: And so after justification they put a Christian in such an estate of Sanctification as that he is a mee• Patient, in next disposition to move if he be moved: Like a weather-Cock, which hath no power at all to move, but as the wind blows it, good or bad.