A59665:2046
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.
Secondly, They petition the wise, that they would give them of their oil; which latter is amplified in vers. 9. from the answer the wise made unto them.
Secondly, They petition the wise, that they would give them of their oyl; which latter is amplified in vers. 9. from the answer the wise made unto them.
We shall open the words as we come to observe any thing from them; and begin now with the complaint [Our lamps are gone out] or going out, it is all one; The wise Virgins lamps did grow dim, but yet their oil was not spent; but here their oil was spent, and hence their Lamps were going out.
We shall open the words as we come to observe any thing from them; and begin now with the complaint [Our lamps are gone out] or going out, it is all one; The wise Virgins lamps did grow dim, but yet their oyl was not spent; but here their oyl was spent, and hence their Lamps were going out.
That counterfeit and common grace of foolish Virgins, after some time of glorious1 profession, will certainly go out, and be quite spent: It consumes in the using, and shining and burning. Luke 8. 18. To him that hath shall be given, ⟨p. 63⟩but he that hath not, shall be taken from him that which he hath. Joh. 15. 2, 6. Every branch in me that beareth no• fruit it withers, then it is taken away, and so it is consumed, and in time burned; and hence, many that are first, are n time last,