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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.
The Lord when he called Abraham out of his own Country to his Friends,1 he followed the Lord he knew not whither. You live now out of your Fathers house, and from all your Friends that long to see you, nay are left among enemies, and you know whither you are to go, to God the Judge of all, and to an […] able company of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect.
The Lord when he called Abraham out of his own Country to his Friends,1 he followed the Lord he knew not whither. You live now out of your Fathers house, and from all your Friends that long to see you, nay are left among enemies, and you know whither you are to go, to God the Iudge of all, and to an 〈…〉 able compa•y of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect.
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Look but upon the men of this world, they long for things here,1 though but temporal, though they have no Christ. Oh long for this though thou […] no world.
Look but upon the men of this world, they long for things here,1 though but te•poral, though they have no Christ. Oh long for this though thou 〈…〉 no world.
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