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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.
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, Jer. 7. 3. Because there is much comfort in Gods Ordinances, and in attending on God there, not only verbal, but the visible Gospel is sweet, the Sacraments: hence they join themselves as in Johns Ministry, You rejoiced for a season, not only in Christ, but in communion of Saints, especially in dangerous times, that a man fears the judgements of God will come in those places where ever they live without them. And now they are quiet when got into the Cities of the Levites, from the pursuer of blood.
3. Their comfort for union to the Church of God, 1. Covers their sin, and hides it from the eyes of the world. Theeves walk without suspition in true mens companies, and thus they make the House of Prayer a Den of Theeves, 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 wickednesse, 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, Ier. 7. 3. Because there is much comfo•t in Gods Ordinances, and in attending on God there, not only verbal, but the visible Gospel is sweet, the Sacraments: hence they joyn themselves as in Iohns Ministry, You rejoyced for a season, not only in Christ, but in communion of Saints, especially in dangerous times, that a man fears the judgements of God will come in those places where ever they live without them. And now they are quiet when got into the Cities of the Levites, from the pursuer of blood.