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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.
2. In being never at rest in his mind until now that he comes to this; for therein a mans ••king any thing his last end appears; as he made his goods his last end, Luke 12. 19. Now therefore my soul be at rest, for there is no seeking the Lord but self-seeking hinders; Now though it be thus yet, Do I make my self my last end? then my mind would be at rest; but if sanctified, its not at rest till now: And hence Paul when he had run this race, now you see him leaning upon his pillow, 2 Tim. 4. 6, 7. And hence Saints are loth to die and be blessed in heaven, because they […] done so little work as yet; little do the Saints for the Lord many times, yet their hearts are upright, for what mourn they for so much as this, when they have looked upon it; oh that the Lord hath been a looser by them▪
2. In being never at rest in his minde until now that he comes to this; for therein a mans ••king any thing his last end appears; as he made his goods his last end, Luke 12. 19. Now therefore my soul be at rest, for there is no seeking the Lord but self-seeking hinders; Now though it be thus yet, Do I make my self my last end? then my minde would be at rest; but if sanctified, its not at rest till now: And hence Paul when he had run this race, now you see him leaning upon his pillow, 2 Tim. 4. 6, 7. And hence Saints are loth to die and be blessed in heaven, because they 〈…〉 done so little work as yet; little do the Saints for the Lord many times, yet their hearts are upright, for what mourn they for so much as this, when they have lookt upon it; oh that the Lord hath been a looser by them▪