A59665:2213
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.
SECT. VIII.
Quest. How shall I do thus, my heart will be wanton and carnal?
Quest. HOw shall I do thus, my heart will be wanton and carnal?
Answ. 1. Set this down for a conclusion, I shall never be comforted by the Lord, whiles any thing else comforts my heart, i. e. for it self, as hath been proved; and if this was well thought of, this would make a man above all other things detest his carnal content, because this indeed keeps the Lord from him.
2. Keep the remembrance of the bitterness of your sin and evil in it; thus David, Plal. 51. 3. set it ever before him; for all the sweet of sin comes into the heart by a delusion first begot in the mind, of some present good in it, which the soul not attending to is drawn away by it, ••am. 1. 14. drawn away and enticed; hence fortify here. Three things in sin, which if remembered, would make it bitter.