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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.
How shall I fear thus?1
- 1Quest.
1. Unless the Lord put it into your heart,1 none can; for the security of the world is not sleepy, but deadly: Men are bound up as strong as with chains of death; that till they feel the misery, they cannot fear it strongly. Oh look up to the Lord to unchain those chains of death.
1. Unlesse the Lord put it into your heart,1 none can; for the security of the world is not sleepy, but deadly: Men are bound up as strong as with chains of death; that till they feel the misery, they cannot fear it strongly. Oh look up to the Lord to unchain those chains of death.
- 1Answ.
2. Know the happiness of them that shall ever be with Christ, what is the sweetness of Christs love, and worth of it. Imagine the last day come, and all the dead raised, Christ with flaming fire, all the wicked on the left hand, and then sent away with depart ye cursed; all the Saints on the right hand, and then ⟨p. 99⟩Oh come! and when all is dispatched, then to go up to Heaven, and when gone, there to be for ever rejoicing, triumphing in the presence of God Almighty; and now what it will be to be far off from Christ, weeping, never to be pitied more. Oh he that was so full of pity, no heart then to pity, no hand to help! I can but only paint this fire. Oh that the Lord would help you here, that so you might look out for him. Sailors sleep in calms, and so it may be have many here in this place of rest. Others of you take heed, Isle tell you your bar, It may be most estates are brought low and sunk; when you see that, now you either look back, or look for Lots accommodations, and such an estate as is lost, it may be you will spy some hope of it, and then follow the game, and never look out till you die. The Lord keep you from it! You then will not look up for Christs coming at the last day, or in his Ordinances; here: If thou dost so, had it not been better thou hadst been buried in the Sea, or left in sorrow on the Shore? Oh take heed therefore, look for the coming and company of Christ, and let this be enough, and because you cannot look for him in the the clouds now, Oh look and wait for him in his Ordinances; and consider if espoused ones look for his coming then, and for perfect knowledge of him, and communion with him, then think, Lord what a heart have I that look not for him here! But Lord who will believe our report?