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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.
SECT. VII.
DO not say I have found good from them, as well as seen Grace in them […] I blessed God that ever I saw or spake with them, or ever saw […] &c. I answer, Know it that they were but powerless instruments […] of a merciful, yet powerful Christ, otherwise thou hadst never […] from any Christian, any Minister, any Sermon; the Lord Jesus […] have used them as means to have condemned thee, as he did […] and Noah's example, by which he condemned the world, as well as to have called thee, or done the least good to thee; therefore this still […] upon Christ above all others in the world; all the Saints and Ministers in the world could not have changed one hair from being black to white, no••• all their cares for thee added one cubit to thy stature; Oh it was the Lord, […] if they have any pity, the Lord put in them; if they ever spake one word, or made one prayer, the Lord put it in them; if blessed, it is by him.
DO not say I have found good from them, as well as seen Grace in them 〈…〉 I blessed God that ever I saw or spake with them, or ever saw 〈…〉 &c. I answer, Know it that they were but powerless instruments 〈…〉 of a merciful, yet powerful Christ, otherwise thou hadst never 〈…〉 from any Christian, any Minister, any Sermon; the Lord Jesus 〈…〉 have used them as means to have condemned thee, as he did 〈…〉 and Noahs example, by which he condemned the world, as well as to have called thee, or done the least good to thee; therefore this still upon Christ above all others in the world; all the Saints and Ministers in the world could not have changed one hair from being black to white, no all their cares for thee added one cubit to thy stature; Oh it was the Lord, if they have any pity, the Lord put in them; if they ever spake one word, or made one prayer, the Lord put it in them; if blessed, it is by him.