The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

2. Their gain, 'tis strange that Judas follows Christ for the bag, that was so poor, ye• he did, until he saw after three years and a half waiting, so little came in. So 'tis ••ange men should seek to join to poor Churches for that, yet they do and will so long as they have any lots to give, or purses to lend, or hearts to take care and provide for those that are joined to them. You shall have many poor Christian ⟨p. 118⟩men, that be but kind and bountiful to them, you may lead them into any errors, catch them at your •leasure with a silver hook, until they see their g•in grows little and respect less, and then they fall off.

2. Their gain, 'tis strange that Iudas follows Christ for the bagg, that was so poor, ye• he did, until he saw after three years and a half waiting, so little came in. So 'tis ••ange men should seek to joyn to poor Churches for that, yet they do and will so long as they have any lots to give, or purses to lend, or hearts to take care and provide for those that are joyned to them. You shall have many poor Christian ⟨p. 118⟩men, that be but kind and boun•iful to them, you may lead them into any errors, catch them at your •leasure with a silver hook, until they see their g•in grows little and respect lesse, and then they fall off.

3. Their comfort for union to the Church of God, 1. Covers their sin, and hides it from the eyes of the world. Thieves walk without suspicion in true mens companies, and thus they make the House of Prayer a Den of Thieves, and this is some comfort. For Hypocrites if they can carry it cleverly that none see, though God see 'tis no matter. It will not be thought that a Member of a Church dares do such a wickedness, yet so it is sometime. 2. Comforts their conscience in their sin; men love their lusts, but what , no respect to Ordinances of Christ? yes, and so conscience is quiet, and sin lives too,