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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. If a man complains more or chiefly for want of grace or righteousness,1 to remove sin, and not so much for want of Jesus Christ: Then in this case 'tis as it is with a woman, that man for whose absence she mourns most, that is her husband: She saith the other is, no but he is not. So this is the estate of many a soul, they have neither Christ not righteousness: Now they complain so much that their hearts sink and dye away quite within them: And what is it for? I cannot do this, nor I do not find nor feel such signs and affections within me. Such a vile heart, I know not the like, such rising in my heart to sin and thoughts of it; why if you had Christ, all this would be mended. I can do all through Christ. But you complain not for want of Christ, nor need of him from these two Arguments.
2. If a man complains more or chiefly for want of grace or righteousnesse,1 to remove sin, and not so much for want of Jesus Christ: Then in this case 'tis as it is with a woman, that man for whose absence she mourns most, that is her husband: She saith the other is, no but he is not. So this is the estate of many a soul, they have neither Christ not righteousnesse: Now they complain so much that their hearts sink and dye away quite within them: And what is it for? I cannot do this, nor I do not find nor feel such signs and affections within me. Such a vile heart, I know not the like, such rising in my heart to sin and thoughts of it; why if you had Christ, all this would be mended. I can do all through Christ. But you complain not for want of Christ, nor need of him from these two Arguments.
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1. Because the feeling of your sins, does not make you feel a greater need of Christ, as John, I have need to be baptized, &c. but drive you further from Christ, and reason it out against him, And why? Because you would have a righteousness without him which you stand in need of.