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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.
3. It makes a man very vile in his own eyes, Isai. 6. 5. Nay his excellency vile as Isaiah his tongue, and wonders that the Lord should look upon him a Worm who is so glorious. What am I that the Mother of my Lord should come to me, &c. He see; Christ fit, and then sees his Glory, and then saith, What me Lord? me to stand before thee? Lord depart, I am a sinful man!
4. It necessitates the heart to believe, not with assurance, but with a clinging to him: Hypocrites have knowledge of Christ, but it never heats the heart; this as fire necessarily heats, and that which is put to it is heated; so here, for the sight of the last end doth necessitate when 'tis seen, Isai. 55. 4, 5. They shall run to thee, because God hath glorified thee, Rom. 1. 16, 17. 'tis the power of God, for there is righteousness revealed: that though the Lord bids depart, yet he cannot be gone, nay when he concludes, yet as Jonah 2. 4. so he can see to a Temple through the belly of a Whale. Many say, may I believe? or I cannot prize him! I tell you when the Lord appears as he is, you cannot resist that light, but you must cling to him.
4. It necessitates the heart to believe, not with assurance, but with a clinging to him: Hypocrites have knowledg of Christ, but it never heats the heart; this as fire necessarily heats, and that which is put to it is heated; so here, for the sight of the last end doth necessitate when 'tis seen, Isai. 55. 4, 5. They shall run to thee, because God hath glorified thee, Rom. 1. 16, 17. 'tis the power of God, for there is righteousness revealed: that though the Lord bids depart, yet he cannot be gone, nay when he concludes, yet as