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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.
Sixthly, Because of false comforts which usually men meet with before they get that which will abide in them, in their worst hours; and this quiets all.
1. From themselves; A man sees Christ only can redeem him by price, but he feels no need of Christ to redeem him by power; and now seeing what a miserable creature he is, stays himself upon the Lord, and that it may be by some word which he hears. John 8. 30, 31. when they heard that, they believed; yet the Lord tells them, they are not free, but were yet captive to their sin, which they need the Son himself to dye to save them from; and so many•a one comforts himself, and stays here, though he have no other assurance.
1. From themselves; A man sees Christ only can redeem him by price, but he feels no need of Christ to redeem him by power; and now seeing what a miserable creature he is, stays himself upon the Lord, and that it may be by some word which he hears. Iohn 8. 30, 31. when they heard that, they believed; yet the Lord tells them, they are not free, but were yet captive to their sin, which they need the Son himself to dye to save them from; and so many•a one comforts himself, and stayes here, though he have no other assurance.
2. The approbation and comfort of others, Ezek 13. 3, 4.