A59665:1819
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. IV.
Because it is so difficult to awaken one throughly;1 no bonds (next to death) so strong to keep men under as security; and hence Ephes. 5. 14. sleeping and being among the dead are joined together; and hence the Lord will cry, and if the Word cannot, the cry of the Rod must and shall.
BEcause it is so difficult to awaken one throughly;1 no bonds (next to death) so strong to keep men under as security; and hence Ephes. 5. 14. sleeping and being among the dead are joyned together; and hence the Lord will cry, and if the Word cannot, the cry of the Rod must and shall.
- 1Reason 1.
In regard of the people of God, who are secure with them that are vile in secure Churches;1 if the Lord had none among them, he would come without crying; but because they are there among them, the Lord will awaken; but if any do, it is chiefly for their sakes; for though the Lord do pardon and wash away his peoples sins, yet they come not to the fruition of pardon without faith, and this faith is never severed from repentance; and hence the Lord will not come upon them unawares before he hath broken their hearts (not from infirmities, for they will last till death, but) broken their hearts for and with their iniquity, their chief sin.