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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.
5. Hence the Lord takes away sometimes those feelings, those enlargements they had, and baits them with most vexing sins, and pricking distempers, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 9. and it is to advance Grace.
6. Hence the Lord is sometimes angry with his people, and hides his face from them, that if ever he returns in love, his Grace may be the sweeter, and last the longer, Isai. 54. 7. Nay hence sometimes strips them so of all that they have had, or can do, that if you ask what have you now to say for your selves? nothing but Grace, their mouths are stopped. Hence Psalm 6. Lord save me for thy mercies sake, Psalm 51. 11. According to the multitude of thy mercies, &c.
6. Hence the Lord is sometimes angry with his people, and hides his face from them, that if ever he returns in love, his Grace may be the sweeter, and last the longer, Isai. 54. 7. Nay hence sometimes strips them so of all that they have had, or can do, that if you ask what have you now to say for your selves? nothing but Grace, their mouths are stopt. Hence Psalm 6. Lord save me for thy mercies sake, Psalm 51. 11. According to the multitude of thy mercies, &c.