A59665:1788
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.
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Let this be a warning to all those who have passed the first age of their Christian life, after you have waited long and tarried for the Bridegroom, take heed of security, and think this may occasion it, viz. The Bridegrooms delay: In the first heat of your youthful affections, there's not that danger then as now, lest you grow decrepit, passive and dull; and therefore think, Whatever else I do, I will be sure to keep this door, it shall not come in here, and yet do we not see men fall here! one would think it should not be so in these times, when God calls so many of his servants to Heaven to him, and is hacking at so many posts and pillars of this Tabernacle; especially considering withal that it is no time to seek great things to your selves: Thou shalt have thy life for a prey (as he said to Baruch) Who is it that thinks it long to death, that is within a days walk of his grave! Oh if you have your life, you are well; you may be glad of a place to die in.
LEt this be a warning to all those who have passed the first age of their Christian life, after you have waited long and tarried for the Bridegroom, take heed of security, and think this may occasion it, viz. The Bridegrooms delay: In the first heat of your youthful affections, there's not that danger then as now, lest you grow decrepit, passive and dull; and therefore think, Whatever else I do, I will be sure to keep this door, it shall not come in here, and yet do we not see men fall here! one would think it should not be so in these times, when God calls so many of his servants to Heaven to him, and is hacking at so many posts and pillars of this Tabernacle; especially considering withal that it is no time to seek great things to your selves: Thou shalt have thy life for a prey (as he said to Baruch) Who is it that thinks it long to death, that is within a days walk of his grave! Oh if you have your life, you are well; you may be glad of a place to die in.