A59665:1561
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.
3. When a man is so fallen, as that he returns not in the season of rising: Look as 'tis with Trees in Winter-time, their leaves, their blowths, their fruit, their beauty is gone: Is it then dry and barren, and quite withered, and cursed? One would think so for the present, but 'tis not so, because the season of fruit and leaves is not now; if in Spring and Summer it should be so, then you might well suspect it. Thus Jer. 8. 5, 7, 8. yet they said they were wise, and they had Law and Ordinances among them: True, yet they did not know their season, hence fell with an everlasting backsliding. Hence Psal. 1. 3, 4, 5. They are like the tree planted by the rivers side which bears in season.
3. When a man is so fallen, as that he returns not in the season of rising: Look as 'tis with Trees in Winter-time, their leaves, their blowths, their fruit, their beauty is gone: Is it then dry and barren, and quite withered, and cursed? One would think so for the present, but 'tis not so, because the season of fruit and leaves is not now; if in Spring and Summer it should be so, then you might well suspect it. Thus Ier. 8. 5, 7, 8. yet they said they were wise, and they had Law and Ordinances among them: True, yet they did not know their season, hence fell with an everlasting backsliding. Hence Psal. 1. 3, 4, 5. They are like the tree planted by the rivers side which bears in season.
What, and when is this season?1
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