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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.
This serve• to clear us in this Country from a soul aspersion that is cast out of the mouths of Pulpits upon us,1 that we hold the Churches of Christ to have no Hypocrite in the•. We answer, that though if Hypocrite could be openly and Ecclesiass•ally discerned, they should not be received in, no• kept in, because […] Church are not fit to make a Church: yet we say there will be Tares and Whe•t, there will be chaste and corn, there will be wise and foolish Virgins, there will be good and bad mingled together in the Church; until the worlds end.
THis serve• to cle•r us in this Country from a soul aspersion that is cast out of the mouths of Pulpits upon us,1 that we hold the Churches of Christ to have no Hypocrite in the•. We answe•, that though if Hypocrite could be openly and Ecclesiass•ally disce•ned, they should not be received in, no• kept in, because 〈…〉 Church are not fit to make a Church: yet we say there will be Tares and Whe•t, there will be chast and corn, there will be wise and foolish Virgins, there will be good and bad mingled together in the Churche; until the worlds end.
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