A59665:592
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.
SECT. II.
1 Because they really foresee, and see such a day, 2 Pet. 3. 3, 4.1 In the last days shall come Scoffers, saying, where is the promise of his coming? all things are as they were, and hence live in their lusts, die in their own dung, and never look for it. But these foresee it really, and hence look for it. Men that live on land, and love the smoke of their own chimneys, never look out to other coasts and countries, or to a strange Land, but Sea-men that are bound for a Voyage, and have a Pilot with them that hath seen the coast, that's it they look for; so men that live in this world, and are well here, look not after Christ not his coming, but they that have a Pilot, a Spirit to show them, this day, this coast, and are bound for another world, they look out for this; they see it two ways
1 BEcause they really foresee, and see such a day, 2 Pet. 3. 3, 4.1 In the last days shall come Scoffers, saying, where is the promise of his coming? all things are as they were, and hence live in their lusts, die in their own dung, and never look for it. But these foresee it really, and hence look for it. Men that live on land, and love the smoak of their own chimneys, never look out to other coasts and countreys, or to a strange Land, but Sea-men that are bound for a Voyage, and have a Pilot with them that hath seen the coast, that's it they look for; so men that live in this world, and are well here, look not after Christ not his coming, but they that have a Pilot, a Spirit to shew them, this day, this coast, and are bound for another world, they look out for this; they see it two waies