A59665:2303
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.
First, By the Church, according to the will of God, they are set apart from all other employments, unless those which other relations bind them too, that so they may dedicate their time, their strength, their private studies, their selves, their prayers, and tears, and all for them; and this ought so to be unless necessity compels, Act. 6. 4. The Disciples would give themselves to the word and prayer, and would not be cumbered about the Deacons office; and so their studies; Paul exhorts Timothy to give himself to reading, to think on these things, 1 Tim. 4. 13, 15.
First, By the Church, according to the will of God, they are set apart from all other employments, unless those which other relations bind them too, that so they may dedicate their time, their strength, their private studies, their selves, their prayers, and tears, and all for them; and this ought so to be unless necessity compels, Act. 6. 4. The Disciples would give themselves to the word and prayer, and would not be cumbred about the Deacons office; and so their studies; Paul exhorts Timothy to give himself to reading, to think on these things, 1 Tim. 4. 13, 15.
Secondly, By the Lord himself, Gal. 2. 15, 16. What is true of Gods separating Paul to an extraordinary, is true in a measure of all his servants set apart for ordinary work, Mal. 2. 7. For the Church sometimes may not set a man apart, yet the Lord may and doth; and hence (by these sometimes he sends to call a Church before there is a Church to call) and how is such a one set ⟨p. 97⟩