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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
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III. Those that have some kind of sight of the Object,1 and see Christ, but there is a wound in the subject, because their Faith ariseth and springs out of an ill soil, it's in such a party that never was yet throughly rent from his sin, and here is the great wound of the most cunning Hypocrites living: for there are two things in him,
III. Those that have some kind of sight of the Object,1 and see Christ, but there is a wound in the subject, because their Faith ariseth and springs out of an ill soyl, it's in such a party that never was yet throughly rent from his sin, and here is the great wound of the most cunning Hypocrites living: for there are two things in him,
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1. A carnal heart, which cannot be satisfied with a spiritual good with Christ; hence he must have his Lust.
2. A convinced conscience, which cannot be quieted without Christ and mercy; hence men close with Christ, and their Lusts too. Look as it was with the stony ground, and thorny soil, they believed, but had a stone at bottom, but […] of bitterness, &c. These men can sometime plead acquaintance with Christ, Luke 13. 26, 27. yet workers of iniquity, 2 Pet. 2. 19, 20