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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.
There is a seeing of Christ after a man believes,1 which is Christ in his love, &c. but I speak of that first sight of him that precedes the second act of Faith, and 'tis an intuitive or real sight of him as he is in his Glory. Christ reveals his wonderful glory to the soul really, as ex gr. A man hears sin to be the greatest evil, and sometime conceives by argument how, but sees not the thing sin, though he sees the word sin: so a man that never travailed into foreign parts, may hear, and read, and speak of Countries: or as Herbalists read of the nature of Plants and Tree•, yet never saw the things, nay trample upon them when they see them: so it is one thing to read of the Sun in a Book, or to know it by relation, another thing to know it by sight. This is therefore the saving-knowledge of Christ, to see the Lord in his Glory as he is: not perfectly, for that is in Heaven; hence we shall there see him, and be like unto him, but imperfectly, and in part, 2 Cor. 3. 18. Changed here into the same Image. And this appears from these four Grounds.
There is a seeing of Christ after a man believes,1 which is Christ in his love, &c. but I speak of that first sight of him that precedes the second act of Faith, and 'tis an intuitive or real sight of him as he is in his Glory. C•rist reveals his wonderful glory to the soul really, as ex gr. A man hears sin to be the greatest evil, and sometime conceives by argument how, but sees not the thing sin, though he sees the word sin: so a man that never travailed into forraign parts, may hear, and read, and speak of Countries: or as Herbalists read of the nature of Plants and Tree, yet never saw the things, nay trample upon them when they see them: so it is one thing to read of the Sun in a Book, or to know it by relation, another thing to know it by sight. This is therefore the saving-knowledg of Christ, to see the Lord in his Glory as he is: not perfectly, for that is in Heaven; hence we shall there see him, and be like unto him, but imperfectly, and in part,