The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

First Through want of daily nourishment and supply from the Lord Jesus; for look as it is with many bodies, suppose they have life, yet if there be not daily nourishment for it, and wholesome also, it will dye ere long, and consume; so it is here, there is a kind of life which hypocrites have from Christ, and it may be fed, and so they live for a time; but this the Lord ever doth for them, they are not always fed, and hence die, as it is John 6. some were quickened to follow after Christ in the wilderness for loaves, some for better ends (as his Disciples) but the Lord knew their want, labour not for them at that perisheth, but for that which gives everlasting life, which Christ will give you; and hence the whole Chapter is spent upon this, to feed upon himself, whence the best were offended: Let a man partake of all Ordinances, Privileges he shall find nothing else but decay unless the Lord be in them all to give daily nourishment, Ephes. 4. 16. daily, I mean, as there is decrease of that taste they have had of the Lord.

First THrough want of daily nourishment and supply from the Lord Jesus; for look as it is with many bodies, suppose they have life, yet if there be not daily nourishment for it, and wholsom also, it will dye ere long, and consume; so it is here, there is a kinde of life which hypocrites have from Christ, and it may be fed, and so they live for a time; but this the Lord ever doth for them, they are not always fed, and hence die, as it is Iohn 6. some were quickened to follow after Christ in the wilderness for loaves, some for better ends (as his Disciples) but the Lord knew their want, labor not for them at that perisheth, but for that which gives everlasting life, which Christ will give you; and hence the whole Chapter is spent upon this, to feed upon himself, whence the best were offended: Let a man partake of all Ordinances, Priviledges he shall finde nothing else but decay unless the Lord be in them all to give daily nourishment,