A59665:290
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.
First, Spiritual defilement is forsaking of the Husband, a total secret forsaking of Christ; for here is the temptation to it, viz. Gods withdrawing himself in his Ordinances from his Ordinances. For three sorts of Temptations make men fall back.
1. By Persecution, and there many fall (though some hold out) as in the stony land.
2. By Peace, and here many fall like the thorny ground; like Sailors that in a storm at Sea, every man is ready, and will be pulling his rope, but when a calm, then go to their Cabins, and there fall asleep, and here many fall in this place, and others stand it out.
2. By Peace, and here many fall like the thorny ground; like Saylors that in a storm at Sea, every man is ready, and will be pulling his rope, but when a calm, then go to their Cabbins, and there fall asleep, and here many fall in this place, and others stand it out.