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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 we see no Christian ought to content himself with any measure of knowledge or fellowship with the Lord Jesus here.1 For if full, perfect and immediate fellowship with him in Heaven and at last day ought to be the mark he aims at, and journeys end of all his desires, then he is not to sit down in the mid-way, but to breath, and aspire after still more and more of him. Thus Paul, though fully sealed with the Spirit, yet he makes this his mark, Phil. 3. 14, 15, 16. 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11, 12, 13. The Apostle tells them the Prophets looked after the Grace given in their times, therefore gird up your loins, and hope perfectly for Grace to be given you at the revelation of Christ Jesus. Men that have preferment in ⟨p. 111⟩their eye, and are to come on by degrees to it, never content themselves with any (though they will not sleight what they have) until they come to their highest: You are born to great hopes, sleight not what you have, but look after more, 2 Pet. 3. 18.
HEnce we see no Christian ought to content himself with any measure of knowledge or fellowship with the Lord Jesus here.1 For if full, perfect and immediate fellowship with him in Heaven and at last day ought to be the mark he aimes at, and journies end of all his desires, then he is not to sit down in the mid-way, but to breath, and aspire after still more and more of him. Thus Paul, though fully sealed with the Spirit, yet he makes this his mark, Phil. 3. 14, 15, 16. 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11, 12, 13. The Apostle tels them the Prophe•s looked after the Grace given in their times, therefore gird up your loyns, and hope perfectly for Grace to be given you at the revelation of Christ Iesus. Men that have preferment in