The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

1. Take heed of making Graces in a christian the weaknesses of a christian, for this is to make darkness light, and Grace wantonness indeed: Is it not? Take heed then of thinking or saying counterfeit or false Sanctification consists in feeling something in a mans self, as love to, delight in the Lord and his ways: True Sanctification, in seeing nothing, no love, no delight: why the Apostle Paul •new that in him, i. e. in his flesh dwelt no good thing, but he calls it flesh there, and groans under it, yet he felt a Law within closing with the Law without, and blessed the Lord for it, and that was himself. Do you think the Holy Ghost co•es on a man as on Balaam, by immediate acting, and then leaves him, and then he hath nothing: Yes Beloved, know you not Christ is in you (2 Cor. 13. 5.) as well as out of you; in you, comforting, dwelling, sanctifying, preparing the heart for himself. Indeed to be puffed •p with Grace, or rest in it is a sin, yet that Grace is not that sin.

1. Take heed of making Graces in a christian the weaknesses of a christian, for this is to make darknesse light, and Grace wantonnesse indeed: Is it not? Take heed then of thinking or saying counterfeit or false Sanctification consists in feeling something in a mans self, as love to, delight in the Lord and his wayes: True Sanctification, in seeing nothing, no love, no delight: why the Apostle Paul •new that in him, i. e. in his flesh dwelt no good thing, but he calls it flesh there, and groans under it, yet he felt a Law within closing with the Law without, and blessed the Lord for it, and that was himself. Do you think the Holy Ghost co•es on a man as on Balaam, by immediate acting, and then leaves him, and then he hath nothing: Yes Beloved, know you not Christ is in you (2 Cor. 13. 5.) as well as out of you; in you, comforting, dwelling, sanctifying, preparing the heart for himself. Indeed to be puft •p with Grace, or rest in it is a sin, yet that Grace is not that sin.