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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.
Ans. No, 'tis therefore said he went away, his care is over now they are sown. Look as 'tis Jesuits policy at this day, the end of their Order is to raise up the collapsed ruins of Rome, and to bring all Christendom (and if it be possible all the world) to the Hellish bondage and blind obedience of the See of Rome. Hence some Kingdoms, because they cannot conquer them by power, they seek to do it by craft; hence they seek to lay their Leaven and make their party within, from whom they may have intelligence, and hence they shall do well enough with them: So Satan seeking the ruin of the Church, seeks to make his party within the Church, for one of these three ends chiefly.
Ans. No, 'tis therefore said he went away, his care is over now they are sown. Look as 'tis Jesuits policy at this day, the end of their Order is to raise up the collapsed ruines of Rome, and to bring all Christendom (and if it be possible all the world) to the Hellish bondage and blind obedience of the See of Rome. Hence some Kingdomes, because they cannot conquer them by power, they seek to do it by craft; hence they seek to lay their Leaven and make their party within, from whom they may have intelligence, and hence they shall do well enough with them: So Satan seeking the ruine of the Church, seeks to make his party within the Church, for one of these three ends chiefly.
1. Either that he may divide the Church, that when any Error shall be hatched, he may have his party to maintain it, and his faction to plead for it. Or
1. Either that he may divide the Church, that when any Errour shall be hatched, he may have his party to maintain it, and his faction to plead for it. Or
2. That he may corrupt it, if he cannot divide it, that the Tares may suck out the heart and life and power of Godliness in the hearts of the Elect; for you know 'tis not the Briar but the Iv that sucks out the life and sap of the tree, and 'tis not profane pricking persecutors, but seeming friends to the Church, that suck out the heart and life of it. It was not Jeroboam's greatness, but the old Prophets gravity and seeming Piety that sucked out the Spirit and Sap of the young Prophet,