A59665:1858
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.
Object. But I know it not.
Object. BUt I know it not.
Answ. God keeps his best blessings (and perfumes them long in his own hand) from his own children; as Isaac, David, Abraham, Heman, Christ; but it is best you know it not.
Answ. God keeps his best blessings (and persumes them long in his own hand) from his own children; as Isaac, David, Abraham, Heman, Christ; but it is best you know it not.
Hast thou been seeking the Lord for his presence (that the Lord would but see and consider thee a little) until thine eyes fail thee? and do you think the Lord will ever forget? I tell thee if Peter were in Prison, prayers would deliver him, and fetch Angels from Heaven to him; though the Church of God lay desolate, sins great, yet the prayer of Daniel shall bring down words of command to make all up again; If thou be in any want, be careful in nothing, &c. He asked thee life, thou gavest him long life for ever and ever; nay, when thou •easest, thy prayers have their cry, when thy mouth, when thy heart speaks not; for prayers are not dead things but living, begotten out of a living Spirit, from a living God, presented by a living Mediator, who takes them and presents them,