A59665:361
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. Never any came to him that he cast away, whatever their sorrows or sins were, but healed them every one if they came to him with their miseries: for in healing their miseries, he did but show his readiness to heal them of their sin; hence Matthew applies that, Mat. 8. 17. He bare our infirmities.
1. Never any came to him that he cast away, whatever their sorrows or sins were, but healed them every one if they came to him with their miseries: for in healing their miseries, he did but shew his readinesse to heal them of their sin; hence Matthew applies that, Mat. 8. 17. He bare our infirmities.
2. When men came to him for by-ends, not for himself chiefly, he rebukes them for it, and shows he was more ready to give himself, than bread to them, John 6. 27.
2. When men came to him for by-ends, not for himself chiefly, he rebukes them for it, and shews he was more ready to give himself, than bread to them, Iohn 6. 27.
3. Those that were lost, and sick, and miserable, and came not to him, he went up and down to seek and save them, the lost Sheep, Luke 19. 10.