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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.
•om. 8. 15, 16. By the Spirit of Adoption only;1 for though I do not exclude the work of sanctified reason from the witness of the Spirit, yet this I say, that all the men in the world, nor all the wisdom and reason of man can never chase away all fears, scatter all mists till the Spirit it self saith peace and be still, and puts its hand and seal to the Evidence: till the Spirit not by an audible, but power•• voice shows and persuades, Acts 12. 13, 14, 15, 16. They had been praying for P•ter, Peter knocks, the Damsel saith, Peter is there; now see their unbelief after such a mighty Spirit of Prayer, 'Tis his Angel, say they, and could not be persuaded till he came in and showed himself. So the soul is praying a mans own Spirit goes out and sees there is more unbelief and fear, say no '•is a delusion: well the Spirit still knocks, and the soul opens, and then he comes in, and the soul is astonished. And that you may have it,
•om. 8. 15, 16. By the Spirit of Adoption only;1 for though I do not exclude the work of sanctified reason from the witnesse of the Spirit, yet this I say, that all the men in the world, nor all the wisdom and reason of man can never chase away all fears, scatter all mists till the Spirit it self saith peace and be still, and puts its hand and seal to the Evidence: till the Spirit not by an audible, but power•• voice shews and •erswades, Acts 12. 13, 14, 15, 16. They had been praying for P•ter, Peter knocks, the Damsel saith, Peter is there; now see their unbelief after such a mighty Spirit of Prayer, 'Tis his Angel, say they, and could not be perswaded till he came in and shewed himself. So the soul is praying a mans own Spirit goes out and sees there is more unbelief and fear, say no 'is a delusion: well the Spirit still knocks, and the soul opens, and then he comes in, and the soul is astonished. And that you may have it,