A59665:2359
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.
3. Give the Lord the price of his Gospel; men that come to buy must give the price Zach. 11. 12. And God will not let you have any thing without price; give away all thou hast (when thou comest to hear) to the Lord, let him pluck or take any thing from thee, only let him not take away himself, and his Spirit; prize the least truth above all the world, as indeed it is better, the Lord may else deny these pearls to you, Heb. 4. 2. The word did not profit because not mixed with faith; and •hat is the property of that? vide 1 Per. 2. 5, 6. To him that believes the Lord is precious; it makes Christ precious, and every truth precious; and when the Lord himself is precious, the Spirit is sent, Joh. 14. 17. whom the world cannot receive, because they know him not. Oh he is not sweet not precious to them.
3. Give the Lord the price of his Gospel; men that come to buy must give the price Zach. 11. 12. And God will not let you have any thing without price; give away all thou hast (when thou comest to hear) to the Lord, let him pluck or take any thing from thee, only let him not take away himself, and his Spirit; prize the least truth above all the world, as indeed it is better, the Lord may else deny these pearls to you, Heb. 4. 2. The word did not profit because not mixt with faith; and •hat is the property of that? vide 1 Per. 2. 5, 6. To him that believes the Lord is precious; it makes Christ precious, and every truth precious; and when the Lord himself is precious, the Spirit is sent, Joh. 14. 17. whom the world cannot receive, because they know him not. Oh he is not sweet not precious to them.