The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

Secondly, A believing heart, or Faith, finds and feels its rest by trouble. Unto the righteous there ariseth light out of darkness, Psal. 37. After you have suffered, God settle you, 1 Pet. 5. 10. Not as the world gives peace, give I it unto you, Joh. 14. 27. For the life of a Christian is a life of faith, which is a life contrary to sense and reason: When the Lord kills, what doth he intend then to save me? and when he blinds me, doth he intend to teach me? yes that he doth, and by their warfare they find peace. Hence Paul at the end of his life makes his triumph, I have finished my course, 2 Tim. 4. 6, 7, 8. this makes promises precious; when, though a man feels the strength of sin, yet sees the Lord will subdue it; when a man finds guilt of sin, yet sees the Lord will pardon it for his own names sake: It's a strange place 2 Cor. 1. 8, 9. We were oppressed without reason, Why? that we might not trust in our selves, ( why, was there no way but this?) why, this is the life of faith, to find life in death, peace in sorrow: But a slothful heart finds not rest by denying it self, and walking through trouble; but by pleasing it self, and easing it self of trouble, because it is at league with it: One that hath broken league, finds peace by war, and then takes spoils; but another è contra, &c.

Secondly, A believing heart, or Faith, finds and feels its rest by trouble. Unto the righteous there ariseth light out of darkness, Psal. 37. After you have suffered, God settle you, 1 Pet. 5. 10. Not as the world gives peace, give I it unto you, Joh. 14. 27. For the life of a Christian is a life of faith, which is a life contrary to sence and reason: When the Lord kills, what doth he intend then to save me? and when he blinds me, doth he intend to teach me? yes that he doth, and by their warfare they find peace. Hence Paul at the end of his life makes his trumph, I have finished my course,