A59665:2450
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.
SECT. VI.
1. IT breaks the heart of the Lord Jesus to see thee depart away, and go a whoring from him; when a man is so set in his desires that when he is crossed of his hopes in marriage, it makes him sick and pine away with grief, because he is very earnest for the match; so it is here, Ezek. 6. 9. And therefore we shall see Mark 8, 12. the Pharisees who had seen all his works, yet an adulterous generation sought after a sign, it is said Christ sighed deeply in spirit for this; nothing grieves the Lord so much as this; to despise any part of his will, or poorest member of his, grieves him; but to despise himself, this much more; as we shall not find any joy in Scripture •ike this, when the Lord hath overcome the unkind heart of a rebellious sinner;1 and hence heaven and earth and deserts are commanded to rejoice at this: devise to grieve him, and you cannot do it so much as by refusing him.
1. IT breaks the heart of the Lord Jesus to see thee depart away, and go a whoring from him; when a man is so set in his desires that when he is crossed of his hopes in marriage, it makes him sick and pine away with grief, because he is very earnest for the match; so it is here, Ezek. 6. 9. And therefore we shall see