A59665:1620
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.
Quest. But what is this their general Security?
Answ. Look as it is in our ordinary sleep, so it is in this general Security: There are these six things in it.
1. A man forgets his business, his work he was about, or is to be exercised about; so in a carnal security, men forget the Lord, his works, and his will; that which we most think of while we be awake, we least think of indeed when we be asleep: Take a man awakened indeed, O then the worst remember the Lord and his Covenant, Psal. 78. 47. But when asleep, the Lord and his errand is least thought of; and hence security is expressed by forgetting God, Psal. 50. 21. And hence Jerusalems security was in this, they remembered not their latter end.
1. A man forgets his business, his work he was about, or is to be exercised about; so in a carnal security, men forget the Lord, his works, and his will; that which we most think of while we be awake, we least think of indeed when we be asleep: Take a man awakened indeed, O then the worst remember the Lord and his Covenant, Psal. 78. 47. But when asleep, the Lord and his errand is least thought of; and hence security is exprest by forgetting God, Psal. 50. 21. And hence Ierusalems security was in this, they remembred not their latter end.