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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.
Not that a man is alway thus, for he that cannot feel afterward the Lord Jesus by the power of his Grace working in his heart, I would conclude, he never had any at all. But at first 'tis so. For these two things man naturally seeks,
1. To have a righteousness in himself that will ease him.
1. To have a righteousnesse in himself that will ease him.
2. To have it from himself: Kitchen Physic is not far to fetch.
2. To have it from himself: Kitchin Physick is not far to fetch.
Now the Lords plot in saving his, is, 1. To make them seek it out of themselves in another: Look unto me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. 2. To have ⟨p. 19⟩all from another, that so, no flesh night glory before him. And to doubt of this, is to doubt whether God hath plotted the Glory of his Grace or no. Hence the Lord empties the soul of both, that the soul saith, Ashur shall not save us,