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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.
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
First, to think that the letter of the whole Scripture holds out no more than a Covenant of Works, a most prodigious Speech, though coloured with advancing a ⟨p. 130⟩Spiritual Covenant of Grace, and no Word but Christ.
Secondly, Under a show of advancing Gods Grace in doing all, to say the Ordinances are not means, but only occasions of conversion.
Secondly, Under a shew of advancing Gods Grace in doing all, to say the Ordinances are not means, but only occasions of conversion.
Thirdly, under a show of giving all to Grace, to abolish that plain truth, as to say we are not justified by Faith, which though it be true, not really, i. e. not simply, by Faith in it self considered as a work, yet to say [not relatively, as the Lord is apprehended by it] it is false. If we cast off the power of the truth, yet let us not cast off the form of it: keep the form of wholesome words as well as truths.