A59665:1735
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.
1. A man denies the power of godliness, that's a burden; his slothful heart will not bear that, that's too hot; for the world carries a condemned carriage of them; and hence he keeps a name to live, and thereby hath peace with the world.
2. He wrestles not against Satan, and his lusts, pursuing them daily, carries not the sense and feeling of them; and hence being luke-warm, he thinks he is rich, and wants nothing, when poor, and blind, and naked.
2. He wrestles not against Satan, and his lusts, pursuing them daily, carries not the sence and feeling of them; and hence being luke-warm, he thinks he is rich, and wants nothing, when poor, and blind, and naked.
3. Hence, not wrestling against sin, he feels not sin, and so conscience is at peace with him; sin is alive without the Law.
4. Keeping a constant course of private duties, he thinks God is at peace also, and so his peace gives him rest, and sloth makes him make a league, because he loves rest: and hence we find, a Christian most oppressed in times of trouble, many times hath most peace; and è contra: Because as it was with Gideon, he had his peace by trouble, they had their peace by rest whose flesh he tore with thorns,