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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.
1. The Parable it self is set down, agreeable to the custom of those times wherein our Saviour lived, wherein their Marriages were usually celebrated in the night time, she that was the Bride was attended with sundry Virgins to meet the Bridegroom; these Virgins (it being night season) took therefore their Lamps with them; those that were ready, and met the Bridegroom, were admitted to the Marriage-Room and Supper; those that came after that time, if once the doors were shut, were surely kept out, though they knocked hard to come in. All this, those who are acquainted with Jewish Histories and customs know to be true, which we are to attend, because it gives not a little light to the true and genuine explication of this Parable.
1. The Parable it self is set down, agreeable to the custom of those times wherein our Saviour lived, wherein their Marriages were usually celebrated in the night time, she that was the Bride was attended with sundry Virgins to meet the Bridegroom; these Virgins (it being night season) took therefore their Lamps with them; those that were ready, and met the Bridegroom, were admitted to the Marriage-Room and Supper; those that came after that time, if once the doors were shut, weresurely kept out, though they knockt hard to come in. All this, those who are acquainted with Iewish Histories and customs know to be true, which we are to attend, because it gives not a little light to the true and genuine explication of this Parable.
In which Parable note these two parts.
1. The Churches preparation to meet with Christ (called here the Bridegroom) from the 1 to the 5 vers.