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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.
SECT. II.
This I might manifest out of several Scriptures, from several times. Look but upon Josiah time, where there was as great a reformation as under any King before him, 2 King. 23. 25. Yet Jer. 3. 10. & 4. 3, 4. Look on the Apostles time, and what apostasy afterward. The Apostle complained of it, Every one seeks their own, Phil. 2. 21. Many walk, &c. Phil. 3. 18, 19. Whom he could not think on without tears. The mystery of iniquity began to work even then. Christ manifests this by divers Parables,