A59665:2141
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. So much as will beautify and adorn them before men, our Lamp is out.
1. So much as will beautifie and adorn them before men, our Lamp is out.
2. So much as will comfort them against the coming of Christ; for now they were troubled that their oil was spent, whereby they might meet the Bridegroom: he that desires it for a little measure of it, his desires are certainly unsound; so much as will serve his turn (he cuts his coat according to his cloth) but he that desires it without measure, è contra, as Paul, Phil. 3. 12. That I may apprehend by any means, that for which I am apprehended: As Chrysostom calls Paul that insatiabilis Dei cultor; for he makes it his last end; as he that desires wealth without measure, though he gets not all the wealth of the world, yet the more he hath, the more he craves; this his fleshly lust is his last end.
2. So much as will comfort them against the coming of Christ; for now they were troubled that their oyl was spent, whereby they might meet the Bridegroom: he that desires it for a little measure of it, his desires are certainly unsound; so much as will serve his turn (he cuts his coat according to his cloth) but he that desires it without measure, è contra, as Paul, Phil. 3. 12. That I may apprehend by any means, that for which I am apprehended: As Chrysostom calls Paul that insatiabilis Dei cultor; for he makes it his last end; as he that desires wealth without measure, though he gets not all the wealth of the world, yet the more he hath, the more he craves; this his fleshly lust is his last end.