A59665:1591
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. No mens misery is so great, Jude 13, 14. the blackness of darkness is for such. Search your selves, you may secretly depart, when you are turning to the Lord ; as a Snail round about the wheel, the wheel moves it, but it moves a contrary motion of its own from the wheel: Therefore begin again. Oh but will the Lord receive me? Who knows but he may? And heal your back slidings, Hos. 14. Because fallen, return: I know not how. Answ. Take words; But the Lord may not regard us, You shall grow like the Lilly, and be as firm as Lebanon.
3. No mens misery is so great, Iude 13, 14. the blackness of darkness is for such. Search your selves, you may secretly depart, when you are turning to the Lord ; as a Snail round about the wheel, the wheel moves it, but it moves a contrary motion of its own from the wheel: Therefore begin again. Oh but will the Lord receive me? Who knows but he may? And heal your back slidings, Hos. 14. Because fallen, return: I know not how. Answ. Take words; But the Lord may not regard us, You shall grow like the Lilly, and be as firm as Lebanon.
Let them that stand, take heed lest they fall, and you discover your hypocrisy to1 all the world, or be like the Hypocrites whose beauty soon fades. And here let me commend three things to you.
Let them that stand, take heed lest they fall, and you discover your hypocrisie to1 all the world, or be like the Hypocrites whose beauty soon fades. And here let me commend three things to you.