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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.
2. Some for comfort, and hence pray and mourn; and hence Mal. 3. 14. what profit is there that we have walked so? as it was with Naomi, when she returned home, both her daughters accompany her some part of her way, Return again, saith she, to your friends, here is no Husband for you where I go; the one would not be beaten off, it is not a Husband I came for, but a God; thy God shall be my God; the other hearing her speeches, and loving her Fathers house, and Country, goes back, not without some affection; so it is here; whereas Faith will cry the more.
2. Some for comfort, and hence pray and mourn; and hence Mal. 3. 14. what profit is there that we have walked so? as it was with Naomi, when she returned home, both her daughters accompany her some part of her way, Return again, saith she, to your friends, here is no Husband for you where I go; the one would not be beaten off, it is not a Husband I came for, but a God; thy God shallbe my God; the other hearing her speeches, and loving her Fathers house, and Country, goes back, not without some affection; so it is here; whereas Faith will cry the more.
Fifthly, From the offences which usually Satan casts in when they are in the heat of their first endeavours; as the stony ground being offended fell away. As,
1. Persecution, and hence they fall; a child begins to look towards God; the Father, Mother, Friends scoff and reproach.
1. Persecution, and hence they fall; a childe begins to look towards God; the Father, Mother, Friends scoff and reproach.