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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.
2. Pray before you come; for as it is in men that trade, their Servants are ready to let out their commodities, but ask the Master first whether he will sell them or no to you; so ask the Lord first. Ministers are but Servants under the Lord, it is not as they will, but as the Lord will dispense, Matth. 11. 25. I thank thee that thou •ast hid these things from the wise and prudent, though Christ himself preached: Oh therefore loo• up to the Lord; Oh Lord let not thy Gospel be a hidden thing from mine eyes. I am persuaded you should see strange things, and grow up more and more if thus you did: When Christ told them that the Spirit should come, he bids them wait for it, and they continued instant in […], Act. 1. 4. and then the Spirit of God came upon them, though extraordinarily, yet here ordinarily; Psal. 51. Lord cause me to hear the voice of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice; and hence the Lord complains, Isa. 50. 3. Why, when I came was their no intercessor? as if he should say, he would have given them help else; Oh therefore before you come, and when you come, pray, Lord speak; pray all the week long that there may be some Sabbath mercies for you.
2. Pray before you come; for as it is in men that trade, their Servants are ready to let out their commodities, but ask the Master first whether he will sell them or no to you; so ask the Lord first. Ministers are but Servants under the Lord, it is not as they will, but as the Lord will dispence, Matth. 11. 25. I thank thee that thou •ast hid these things from the wise and prudent, though Christ himself preached: Oh therefore loo• up to the Lord; Oh Lord let not thy Gospel be a hidden thing from mine eyes. I am perswaded you should see strange things, and grow up more and more if thus you did: When Christ told them that the Spirit should come, he bids them wait for it, and they continued instant in ,