The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

2. Suppose they do not thus, but your heart is divided, so that you long for these things now, and preserve your longing for him against you come to die; yet these will make you lose his sweet fellowship. For a mans affections are precious things, and 'tis pity any else should have them, they are all little enough for Christ, and Christ is worth desiring and longing for, and he stands upon it, and will make them know that have him, that all is too little for him, and they shall give him all before he give himself to their comfort. Hence deny him these, and never think to have himself, and his fellowship, Psal. 73. 25, 26. Its good for me to draw nigh, How? By desiring, not Earth nor Heaven, but him. Hence he saith, Thou destroyest all them that go a whoring from thee, v. 27.

2. Suppose they do not thus, but your heart is divided, so that you long for these things now, and preserve your longing for him against you come to die; yet these will make you lose his sweet fellows•ip. For a mans affections are precious things, and 'tis pity any else should have them, they are all little enough for Christ, and Christ is worth desiring and longing for, and he stands upon it, and will make them know that have him, that all is too little for him, and they shall give him all before he give himself to their comfort. Hence deny him these, and never think to have himself, and his fellowship, Psal. 73. 25, 26. Its good for me to draw nigh, How? By desiring, not Earth nor Heaven, but him. Hence he saith, Thou destroyest all them that go a whoring from thee, v. 27.

3. Suppose thou shouldst have hi• at last, yet he will never desire thee, never take any delight in thee, until that you come to get your affections unloosed here,