A59665:189
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.
4. Consider what he will do for thee, how he will love thee, if thou wilt thus love him.
4. COnsider what he will do for thee, how he will love thee, if thou wilt thus love him.
1. He will set thee next himself in honour, Psalm 45. 9. that as the Lord Jesus is next to God, sits at his right hand: so here, which is an honour that the Angels have not, who are no where called Christs Spouse: hence never had such an union, hence never shall partake of that honour of Saints.
2. He will enrich thee, as 'tis with Man and Wife, all that he hath is hers: so himself, and all his glory, his God, his Father, his Kingdom is thine, Prov. 8. 21. they that love me inherit something, others nothing: no, nothing indeed, only shows of good, and they find it so when they awake, nothing their own, nothing long: that let thy outward man, yea thy inward be never so poor, thou shalt by him be heir of all.