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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. A looking for death: So then lusts are crucified,
1. When you taste the bitterness of your lusts, by putting them on Christs Cross. Oh the wrongs they have done the Son of God! And do this with violence, say, you shall to the Cross, he that looks to Christ with a frolic heart to kill his lusts, shall never find him.
1. When you tast the bitternesse of your lusts, by putting them on Christs Crosse. Oh the wrongs they have done the Son of God! And do this with violence, say, you shall to the Crosse, he that looks to Christ with a frolick heart to kill his lusts, shall never find him.
2. Now looking and longing for their death, by holding them there. Unless the Blood of Christ slay these, I will never have any death for them. For all the reason in the world will never kill a lust, no more than all the reason will persuade the Stomach not to hunger. The Belly hath no ears.
2. Now looking and longing for their death, by holding them there. Unless the Blood of Christ slay these, I will never have any death for them. For all the reason in the world will never kill a lust, no more than all the reason will perswade the Stomach not to hunger. The Belly hath no ears.