The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

8. He loves thee so as when any evil toucheth thee, he hath a feeling of it, and is grieved at it, Jud. 10. 16. Isai. 63. 9. nay he then comforts thee most, both in them, and by them, John 14. 27. Not as the world gives peace, so give I it to you: Oh then grieve thou for those evils that betide him, the wrongs that others offer him, but especially the unkindness thy own Soul shows him, Mark 5. 3. He mourned for the hardness of their heart, Eph. 4. 29, 30. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, and grieve not the Holy Ghost, Heb. 3. 10. Forty years long was I grieved because they erred; I confess you will wrong him, but will you, must you be impenitent too? Did his enemies grieve him on earth, and shall his Friends grieve him in Heaven, and no sorrows, no secret tears? he hath shed his Blood for thy sin, it shall never condemn, and wilt not thou shed tears? Is there no good Nature? But what is there no spirit of mourning? It may be many a day and week hast thou grieved him, and not a sigh to any purpose to ease thee of thy sin, but what hath eased thee in thy sin. Oh now comfort his heart again after thou hast most grieved him; comfort his Spirit that is dying sighing in thee; as he comforts thee by thy troubles, comfort him by making a right use of all thy sins to be more humble, more vile, to love him the more, and love thy self the less, as the Prodigal Son, Luke 15. 18, 20, 24.

8. He loves thee so as when any evil toucheth thee, he hath a feeling of it, and is grieved at it, Iud. 10. 16. Isai. 63. 9. nay he then comforts thee most, both in them, and by them, Iohn 14. 27. Not as the world gives peace, so give I it to you: Oh then grieve thou for those evils that betide him, the wrongs that others offer him, but especially the unkindnesse thy own Soul shews him,