A59665:2096
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, What will become of them that were never cast down so low as these, that never came to be so good as Hypocrites,
For 1. You were born and have lived not only in a sinful estate, but in a Christless estate; dead without all life, every part of thee polluted.
2. If the Lord doth draw any out of this estate, he will make you know what poor creatures you be, that you shall say, I thought I had been thus and thus, but I see I am wretched; I thought I should be saved, but now I am condemned, so that your mouth shall be stopped, Rom. 3. 21. else you would never come to the Lord, to your Fathers house, and prize the grace of God, if any husks to live upon now.
3. You never knew this; never came to complain to any Christian, Oh my oil is spent, my lamp is out; Christ and Spirit, and all good is gone; no, you think your selves rich and want nothing; you have some knowledge, restraint of good affections, and full of these, The Lord will spue you out his mouth, if it is thus with you: Nay, although you have means and hear of it, yet all the world cannot make you know your nakedness, misery, sin and emptiness; Well, if the Lord doth not set up a Judgement-Seat now, you shall be called before it one day, and then your secrets shall be made manifest before all the world; and because you say you see, therefore your sin remains;