A59665:1584
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.
SECT. VII.
First,1 To them that are fallen to begin again, if God would but give you ears to hear,2 who like strange Eggs being put into the same nest where honest men have lived, there you have been hatched up, and when you were young, there you kept your nest, and lived by crying and opening your mouth wide after the Lord, and the food of his Word. But now your wings are grown you have got some affections, some knowledge, some hope of mercy, and are hardened thereby to fly from God. Can that man be good whom Gods grace makes worse? And that flies from Gods Ordinances, and people, and private prayer? Consider what thou hast done.
FIrst,1 To them that are fallen to begin again, if God would but give you ears to hear,2 who like strange Eggs being put into the same nest where honest men have lived, there you have been hatcht up, and when you were young, there you kept your nest, and lived by crying and opening your mouth wide after the Lord, and the food of his Word. But now your wings are grown you have got some affections, some knowledge, some hope of mercy, and are hardned thereby to fly from God. Can that man be good whom Gods grace makes worse? And that flies from Gods Ordinances, and people, and private prayer? Consider what thou hast done.
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