A59665:600
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.
1. They see the Glory of another day, another world, and this puts out the Glory of this, and hence makes them look for that; and hence when Christ would comfort his Disciples, he promiseth nothing here, but tells them, In my Fathers House are many Mansions. I go to prepare a place, and Il• come to you again, John 14. 1, 2, 3. And hence they seeing this to be enough, look for this.
1. They see the Glory of another day, another world, and this puts out the Glory of this, and hence makes them look for that; and hence when Christ would comfort his Disciples, he promiseth nothing here, but tels them, In my Fathers House are many Mansions. I go to prepare a place, and Il• come to you again, Iohn 14. 1, 2, 3. And hence they seeing this to be enough, look for this.
2. They see an end of all these things, of all the Glory of them, and that these summer swallows will take their wings, and fly away in greatest extremities. Hence they look to eternal things, the Lord, and his coming, 2 Cor. 4. 18. We look not at temporal things.
3. They find the Lord crossing them of what they look for in this world, sometimes of outward comforts, sometimes of the performance of spiritual promises, And when God thus hedgeth their way with thorns, then they think of their first Husband. Look as it was with Abraham,