A59665:2463
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. IV.
Only take these four Cautions concerning your consent.
ONly take these four Cautions concerning your consent.
Take heed that your consent arise not only from fear of misery, for this is a forced consent, and is ever naught, and it appears so when the misery is past; many do thus in fears of death, or times of calamity; Oh then the Lord, Hos. 8. 1, 2, 3. Psal. 78. 34, 35.
Secondly, Take heed it be not a conceit of your own making in days of peace; for that which you make from your selves, you will break also; but that it arise from the sense of thine own insufficiency to give consent, and the Lords Almighty power and infinite grace to work it, and then no powers of any creature can untie that knot.
Secondly, Take heed it be not a conceit of your own making in days of peace; for that which you make from your selves, you will break also; but that it arise from the sence of thine own insufficiency to give consent, and the Lords Almighty power and infinite grace to work it, and then no powers of any creature can untie that knot.