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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.
3. Because whatever a man doth from himself, he will grow proud of it, Rom. 4. Not of works, lest any man should boast. Hence Jab sent to David to take the City that he might have the Crown. This robs Christ of the Glory.
3. Because whatever a man doth from himself, he will grow proud of it, Rom. 4. Not of works, lest any man should boast. Hence I•ab sent to David to take the City that he might have the Crown. This robs Christ of the Glory.
4. Because whatever work is not done by virtue of the Lord Jesus, is a dead work, which a living God, and a living Christ, and a living Spirit lo•th, Heb. 9. 14. Sprinkle your Consciences from dead works. Deadly works are sins, dead works are good works done, but not from the principle of the life of Faith, but life of Nature. Now as Conscience is the principle of the life of Nature. So Christ is the principle of a Christian life, Col. 3. 1 John 5. 10, 11, 12. For 'tis not sanctification that is the principle of life, but the life it self that flows from it, as from union of soul and body, the soul is not the life but the principle of it, hence as soon as its out, the body is dead: So, &c. And do you not find it thus, whenas you do many duties, how tedious, wearisome are they? yet must be done, ⟨p. 31⟩this is a dead work. What comfort, what peace is there, when you have done them? because not from life.