A59665:1856
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.
Object. But what? when I have been secure and careless withal?
Answ. Yes, though the Virgins sleep, yet the Lord will come to them; for if his love did depend upon your watchfulness, he might never return; only it may be longer as to these, and he will awaken you some time before he doth come; and truly to mourn for his absence, is to awaken with him.
Answ. Yes, though the Virgins sleep, yet the Lord will come to them; for if his love did depend upon your watchfulness, he might never return; onely it may be longer as to these, and he will awaken you some time before he doth come; and truly to mourn for his absence, is to awaken with him.
Object. But it hath been thus long before the Lord come, and therefore he will never come.
Answ. Though long, yet you see he comes at last to them; first, the cry says so, and then he comes; Ministers tell you so, and it is not long after; nay, then is the very time, when so long as you look not for him, as here to these.