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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.
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, Hos. 14. 3, 4. None durst, none can comfort it. And now to the wonderment of Heaven, and everlasting joy of a poor cast-away, and the eternal honour of his free Grace, now, and never till now, doth he begin to make the match between the Lord Jesus and this poor soul: And as the Lord never comes to him till now, so he never will come to the Lord, while he hath the least good; as it was with the Prodigal, while any husks, or as it was with the woman with her bloody issue, while any money to spend on other Physicians, never will try what Christ can do. And therefore those that never yet knew of the de•th of the Law, they are yet married to it,