A59665:1767
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.
Answ. 1. In that Christs absence from the world makes him to be much forgotten in the world (out of sight out of mind) especially at those times when men are ready to be overcome by sloth; now forgetfulness of God is the beginning of all the deepest security that can fall upon men, Deut. 32. 18, 19, 20. whence the Lord saith, I will hide my face from them, so as they shall not see me, but I will see them and what their end shall be, and hence this is made the beginning of returning to the Lord, Psa. 22. 27, 28. All Nations shall remember and turn, for the Kingdom is the Lords.
Answ. 1. In that Christs absence from the world makes him to be much forgotten in the world (out of sight out of minde) especially at those times when men are ready to be overcome by sloth; now forgetfulness of God is the beginning of all the deepest security that can fall upon men, Deut. 32. 18, 19, 20. whence the Lord saith, I will hide my face from them, so as they shall not see me, but I will see them and what their end shall be, and hence this is made the begining of returning to the Lord, Psa. 22. 27, 28. All Nations shall remember and turn, for the Kingdom is the Lords.
Secondly, Because the absence of Christ keeps those things from being seen which should awaken, and which sensibly do awaken; that as it is within the night, when there is little noise, and darkness over-spreads all things, it is hard now to be kept from sleep, when the curtains are drawn; so while Christs is absent, it is a kind of night (his coming called the day, and the day of the Lord) because the things of the Lord are hid from men: And those are these two chiefly.