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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.
1. In that it fills the mind and feeds the heart with it, that it carries unto God with wonderment of blessing him that ever he saw this. Fancies cannot feed, especially in greatest agonies: Now they choose misery on this ground, rather than present peace here, Heb. 11. 35. Not accepting deliverance.
1. In that it fils the mind and feeds the heart with it, that it carries unto God with wonderment of blessing him that ever he saw this. Fancies cannot feed, especially in greatest agonies: Now they chuse misery on this ground, rather than present peace here, Heb. 11. 35. Not accepting deliverance.
2. In that it works effects cross to Nature, nay to all a mans lusts in them. Noah foresaw a Flood nigh, but he might be deceived. No, 'tis said he feared, kept close to God and it came, so here.
2. In that it works effects crosse to Nature, nay to all a mans lusts in them. Noah foresaw a Flood nigh, but he might be deceived. No, 'tis said he feared, kept close to God and it came, so here.
3. This Light whereby they see, it is not only sweet and Glorious, and cross to heart and lusts, but its sudden, that as with Paul, when going to persecute, suddenly there fell a great Light, and so he saw Christ. So when a man goes on in his sin, and suddenly the Lord reveals this and that by a word (else 'tis a deceit) which all Angels could not do before, so as to see it, and that none can reveal it as he sees it, especially to bring this light out of darkness, this must be miraculous power, and no dream. But what do I speak of seeing? they feel the beginnings of it in the first-fruits of it.