A59665:529
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
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2. Because the sight of the Knowledge of Christ, 'tis as the knowledge of a thing in a glass, 1 Cor. 13. 12. Now though you see not the man face to face, yet if ⟨p. 76⟩you see him in a glass, there you see him as he is: Quod videtur in speculo, non est imago, as some think. A man may know another by relation, or by some picture, but in a glass that is more full. The Jews they saw Christ, but it was under Veils and Types, and Pictures of him, this was obscure: under the Gospel the veil is pulled off, and with open face we see as in a glass the glory of the Lord. In Heaven the glass is taken away, and then we see as we are seen.
2. Because the sight of the Knowledg of Christ, 'tis as the knowledg of a thing in a glass, 1 Cor. 13. 12. Now though you see not the man face to face, yet if ⟨p. 76⟩you see him in a glasse, there you see him as he is: Quod videtur in speculo, non est imago, as some think. A man may know another by relation, or by some picture, but in a glass that is more full. The Jews they saw Christ, but it was under Vails and Types, and Pictures of him, this was obscure: under the Gospel the v•il is pulled off, aud with open face we see as in a glasse the glory of the Lord. In Heaven the glasse is taken away, and then we see as we are seen.
3. Because that estate the Saints are translated into is a state of Glory. Hence when justified, then glorified. Hence as that sanctification that is in the will is the beginning of the life of Glory, so that light God puts into their mind, is the beginning of the light of Glory. Hence as in Heaven the soul sees Christ by the full light of Glory perfectly, face to face, so in this life the soul sees Christ really as he is, yet as in a glass imperfectly. Hence we are said to see in part.