A59665:2026
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.
1. When the Jews shall be made the glory of all the earth, their glory shall not consist then in immediate Revelations, but in Sanctification; there shall be holiness and sanctification; there shall be holiness on pots and horse bridles.
2. When the Lord will be a defence to his people, and a shadow from heat, and from the Sun! it shall be when the Lord hath purged away the filth of men by a spirit of burning; not which burns up all holiness, but filthiness and self-confidence ⟨p. 61⟩in any holiness, and hypocrisy, and so they shall be holy, Isa. 4. 3, 4.
2. When the Lord will be a defence to his people, and a shadow from heat, and from the Sun! it shall be when the Lord hath purged away the filth of men by a spirit of burning; not which burns up all holiness, but filthiness and selfconfidence ⟨p. 61⟩in any holiness, and hypocrisie, and so they shall be holy, Isa. 4. 3, 4.
3. How many men stumble by opinions, divisions, &c. (the fruits of a corrupt head, and streams of a dunghill heart) that had rather live in sorrows among enemies, than divisions among friends! Oh the spirit of people, as soon as any new Calf is made, fall down and worship it, and break the ancient Land-marks which the Word hath set, and then make prognostications of all ill weather, to arise from opposing their opinion; never shall our glory be recovered till these evils are confessed and lamented, and the sin of the heart, which begat them.