A59665:746
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
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3. Some seek for more of Christ, but 'tis of an idol christ, not as manifesting himself in and by a Word: for look as any act of obedience is an act of willworship and imagery, that we have not a particular command for, or is not directly deducted from some rule in the Word; so that act of Faith is an act of willworship, which sees and chooseth Christ as his own, when he hath not a particular promise for it, 'Tis an imagination of Christ, not Christ; and you have more of your own imagination, not more of the Lord Jesus, 1 Pet. 1. 25. Monks had sublime• contemplations of God, Luther calls them such as looked upon a Deus & Christus absolutus,—not beholding the beams of his love, and glory in the word. Oh therefore labour for more of such a Christ, as the word holds forth. And look as in Heaven,
3. Some seek for more of Christ, but 'tis of an idol christ, not as manifesting himself in and by a Word: for look as any act of obedience is an act of willworship and imagery, that we have not a particular command for, or is not directly deducted from some rule in the Word; so that act of Faith is an act of willworship, which sees and chuseth Christ as his own, when he hath not a particular promise for it, 'Tis an imagination of Christ, not Christ; and you have more of your own imagination, not more of the Lord Jesus, 1 Pet. 1. 25. Monks had sublime• contemplations of God, Luther calls them such as looked upon a Deus & Christus absolutus,—not beholding the beams of his love, and glory in the word. Oh therefore labour for more of such a Christ, as the word holds forth. And look as in Heaven,
First, They are all one with him in fellowship, the Father in him, and he in them, and they in him, and so made perfect in one.