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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.
Hence behold the happiness of all them that be espoused to the Lord Jesus,1 in that their hopes are laid up in another world, at the day of the coming of the Lord Jesus, 1 Cor. 15. 19. If we had hope only in this life, we were of all men most miserable. Because none so foolish, or so sensible of misery as they, but our hopes stretch to another life, to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Suppose a man had all the Crowns of the world cast at his feet, but at last to be dragged before the judgment-seat of Christ, and there to stand quaking, What should he be the better? What though Saints have all the miseries in this world, but at last with these eyes they shall see the Lord, and stand triumphing before him, and have a real sight and certain expectation of this. What people in the world so great as these?
HEnce behold the happinesse of all them that be espoused to the Lord Jesus,1 in that their hopes are laid up in another world, at the day of the coming of the Lord Jesus, 1 Cor. 15. 19. If we had hope only in this life, we were of all men most miserable. Because none so foolish, or so sensible of misery as they, but our hopes stretch to another life, to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Suppose a man had all the Crowns of the world cast at his feet, but at last to be dragged before the judgment-seat of Christ, and there to stand quaking, What should he be the better? What though Saints have all the miseries in this world, but at last with these eyes they shall see the Lord, and stand triumphing before him, and have a real sight and certain expectation of this. What people in the world so great as these?
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