A59665:1502
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. Sleep at Meetings?
3. Though so fair abroad, yet passionate at home, and storms there?
4. Whence are wars and wranglings about rates and lots? Oh this world!
5. Whence Apostasy? 'Tis not with you as in former times, worse now th•n in persecution; and Sermon-proof now? Oh this world! Whence is hardness of heart? Oh something of the world easeth you! And whence is it that men with rich stocks are goodly things, and wondered at; and Holiness and walking with God, and things of Heaven are nothing? Oh this evil world! Oh Adulterers and Adulteresses, know you not that you hate the Lord, and the Lord you? 'Tis the cause of all thy sin, but see withal 'tis the cause of all thy sorrow, Heaven and the Glory of that would enter, but for it, but that it cannot, because thou art full of it. Oh poor Creatures, take your Farewell quickly of it, or the Lord will meet with you for it! Cry to the Lord, oh call me to come up unto thy self!