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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.
Quest. How shall I so hear as to receive the Spirit?
Quest. HOw shall I so hear as to receive the Spirit?
Answ. 1. Get a deep sense of your wants particularly and distinctly before you come; if a man comes to the Market, and […] his Family wants, he will never come and buy of them that sell; a poor man if he comes into a rich shop, hath a mind to buy all the commodities he sees if he had money; but if it may be had without money he will take them gladly, Matth. 11. The poor receive the Gospel; I am persuaded that this is the great cause why scarce any buy here; they know not their need of every truth; hence Isa. 50. 4. He hath given me the tongue of the learned to preach a Word in season to the weary; the Lord will do it in season; when the heart is weary of its own deceit and ignorance, and all carnal contents, and blessings, and sins, now the Lord Jesus must speak at last; let a people be more weary of outward miseries than of inward, they will not regard Moses by reason of anguish of spirit; this keeps off many a man; either he feels only outward miseries; his mind is broken with cares, how shall I live? with losses and crosses, Family is sick, Cattle die, Servants are untoward and unfaithful; his drink is turned to water, and the English flower is gone; his Friends respect him not, his acquaintance grow strange; these things lie more heavy than sin.
Answ. 1. Get a deep sence of your wants particularly and distinctly before you come; if a man comes to the Market, and 〈…〉 his Family wants, he will never come and buy of them that sell; a poor man if he comes into a rich shop, hath a mind to buy all the commodities he sees if he had money; but if it may be had without money he will take them gladly, Matth. 11. The poor receive the Gospel; I am perswaded that this is the great cause why scarce any buy here; they know not their need of every truth; hence