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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. If you do account them weaknesses, yet take heed your closing with Christ do not cause you to make a light matter of sin, either not to take notice of sins at all, only look to Christ, ('tis not I but sin, as being the act of the outward man: one calls this to unknow a mans self) or not to be deeply sensible of them, and so use Christ as your shoe-clout to wipe them off, Oh this is dangerous; the Spirit of joy never quencheth the Spirit of Sorrow. Capernaum entertained Christ, and yet perished, Oh she repented not! What must we repent after we be in Christ? Yes, Jer. 30. 19. After I was turned I repented: It argues a bold conscience, when men as they look to no good in themselves, so to no sin in themselves, but wholly to Christ.
3. If you do account them weaknesses, yet take heed your closing with Christ do not cause you to make a light matter of sin, either not to take notice of sins at all, only look to Christ, ('tis not I but sin, as being the act of the outward man: one calls this to unknow a mans self) or not to be deeply sensible of them, and so use Christ as your shoe-clout to wipe them off, Oh this is dangerous; the Spirit of joy never quencheth the Spirit of Sorrow. Capernaum entertained Christ, and yet perished, Oh she repented not! What must we repent after we be in Christ? Yes, Ier. 30. 19. After I was turned I repented: It argues a bold conscience, when men as they look to no good in themselves, so to no sin in themselves, but wholly to Christ.
4. Take heed of those Doctrines which in show lift up Grace, but indeed pull […] any part of it, as
4. Take heed of those Doctrines which in shew lift up Grace, but indeed pull 〈…〉 any part of it, as