A59665:1772
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.
SECT. III.
Hence we see the vileness of the hearts of men,1 that Christ his absence (which time is given to us to make us watch) should make us secure; that men should turn day into night, a day of forbearance, into a night of forgetfulness; for if the Lord should not delay his coming, how many thousands would be swept away before any peace made with God, or before any work finished for God! now he in pity gives such days, delays his coming for this end, and do we thus requite the Lord? 2 Pet. 3. 9. Christ himself doth his work while it is light; the night cometh wherein no man can work, Joh. 12. 35, 36. Now what a crossing of the Lord is this? If he should come, thou shouldst be consumed by him; and if he doth not come, you will grow secure before him.
HEnce we see the vileness of the hearts of men,1 that Christ his absence (which time is given to us to make us watch) should make us secure; that men should turn day into night, a day of forbearance, into a night of forgetfulness; for if the Lord should not delay his coming, how many thousands would be swept away before any peace made with God, or before any work finished for God! now he in pity gives such days, delays his coming for this end, and do we thus requite the Lord? 2 Pet. 3. 9. Christ himself doth his work while it is light; the night cometh wherin no man can work,