The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

Answ. 1. Some do it by silencing and persecuting of the Ministry of the Spirit, which is most grievous: When Amos preached against Bethel, up steps Amaziah the Priest of Bethel, Amos 7. 10. and first makes complaint of him to the King; First, that he was factious, and conspired against the King: And secondly, That the Land was not able to bea• his words; that he troubled the Country and Kingdom with his Doctrine, viz. That we shall all dye if we receive not his Doctrine; and hence he commands him to depart and flee from thence, and prophesy no more there; but you see what he answers, I was a Herdsman, and the Lord called me; think not that you oppose a private spirit, but the Lord's that called me: And hence see because he did but say so, what his sentence is, upon his Wife, Children, himself and upon all Israel: Are there not many Amaziah's in these days? do they not take the same course? is not the same spirit working against the Spirit of God now? what will their end be? Let a man be never so peaceable in his place, blessed ⟨p. 101⟩