A59665:1512
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.
4. Some feel a want of these things, and content themselves with desires, and so never come to be indeed […] they desire to be; Its true, Saints feel wants and desire supply: But 1. They are never satisfied till 'tis so indeed: My flesh is meat indeed. 2. They are humble and vile in their own eyes till the Lord help; but these like Solomons sluggard, desire and have not; whereas in things of lesser worth they will not do so, They will not only desire, but indeed till the ground; If one neglects to till, though they answer, I desire, and God accepts that, every one will say he is deceived; their hunger is their food; they build the sluggards nest of desire, and there sit: Oh therefore take heed you fall not short here! Take heed your prayers and desires prove not lazy and unfaithful Messengers which you send to your Friends to come and help you, and they go half way and no further, ⟨p. 225⟩and never fetch them to you indeed. Oh therefore get oil in your Vessels, do not only fear the Lord, but fear him greatly, 1 Sam. 12. 18. Do not only cleave to the Lord, but with the whole heart, and cle•ve to him only; Beg this of the Lord. Look as poor people when they come to rich men that have full heaps, do say, let me have full measure, my family is poor, and charge great: So here.
4. Some feel a want of these things, and content themselves with desires, and so never come to be indeed 〈…〉 they desire to be; Its true, Saints feel wants and desire supply: But 1. They are never satisfied till 'tis so indeed: My flesh is meat indeed. 2. They are humble and vile in their own eyes till the Lord help; but these like Solomons sluggard, desire and have not; whereas in things of lesser worth they will not do so, They will not only desire, but indeed till the ground; If one neglects to till, though they answer, I desire, and God accepts that, every one will say he is deceived; their hunger is their food; they build the sluggards nest of desire, and there sit: Oh therefore take heed you fall not short here! Take heed your prayers and desires prove not lazie and unfaithful Messengers which you send to your Friends to come and help you, and they go half way and no further, ⟨p. 225⟩