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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.
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, Heb. 11. 13. You know strangers when their way is uncomfortable, ever and anon look for their home. Abraham was heir of the world, yet he sojourns as a stranger in it, in Tents, because he looks for a City, v. 10. So here, Saints the heirs of all creatures, yet the Lord makes them strangers here, and hence they look for something else. The things God hath promised to his people are very great, but not accomplished. Why? Because full accomplishment is left till the last day, that hope may wait, and that we may live by Faith. God hath promised to take away all tears, Oh welcome that day! This world cannot do it, and the Lord here will not, 1 Cor. 15. 19. If our hope were only here, we were […] miserable.
3. They find the Lord crossing them of what they look for in this world, somtimes of outward comforts, somtimes 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, Heb. 11. 13. You know strangers when their way is uncomfortable, ever and anon look for their home. Abraham was heir of the world, yet he sojourns as a stranger in it, in Tents, because he looks for a City, v. 10. So here, Saints the heirs of all creatures, yet the Lord makes them strangers here, and hence they look for somthing else. The things God hath promised to his people are very great, but not accomplished. Why? Because full accomplishment is left till the last day, that hope may wait, and that we may live by Faith. God hath promised to take away all tears, Oh welcome that day! This world cannot do it, and the Lord here will not,