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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.
2. Life: Oh Death is terrible, and a dead heart is woeful, 'tis the great plague that lies upon men without Christ, that are strangers to the life of God, Eph. 4. 18. Is thy heart ever so joyed as when it's most enlarged for God, and hath most delight and liberty in the ways of God: alas thy life is but a lingering sickness, a poor life to that which thou hast in Christ. Oh look up there, Col. 3. 3. You think when your hearts are affected, and warmed, and quickened in Prayer by word, or by Divine thoughts, &c. Oh if it might be ever so, how happy! Oh but it dyes presently, and thou knowest not how. Look up to the Lord Jesus, he is alive when thou art dead, and his life is thine, and 'tis ever thine in him, even eternal life, 1 John 5. 10, 11, 12. This is the record, that he hath given us eternal life; alas I find none: Oh 'tis in his Son, in whom thou livest a better life than Men, than Kings, than Angels. And I doubt not but the Lord suffers Temptations to rob you of your life, that you might find it when 'tis lost here, and rejoice that when you have none, yet here it is: blessed be God, he will keep our lives as the life of Jacob was knit up, and bound up in the life of the child; nay that life is ours.
2. Life: Oh Death is terrible, and a dead heart is woful, 'tis the great plague that lies upon men without Christ, that are strangers to the life of God, Eph. 4. 18. Is thy heart ever so joyed as when it's most enlarged for God, and hath most delight and liberty in the wayes of God: alas thy life is but a lingering sickness, a poor life to that which thou hast in Christ. Oh look up there, Col. 3. 3. You think when your hearts are affected, and warmed, and quickened in Prayer by word, or by Divine thoughts, &c. Oh if it might be ever so, how happy! Oh but it dyes presently, and thou kowest not how. Look up to the Lord Jesus, he is alive when thou art dead, and his life is thine, and 'tis ever thine in him, even e•ernal life,