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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.
SECT. III.
That in those days of Christ's coming,1 wherein the Churches of Christ, and Professors of the Gospel shall grow Virgin-Churches, all visible Saints, when all Members seem to be espoused Christ, yet there will be found desperate folly in some, and in time great security will fall upon all.
That in those daies of Christ's coming,1 wherein the Churches of Christ, and Professors of the Gospel shall grow Virgin-Churches, all visible Saints, when all Members seem to be espoused Christ, yet there will be found desperate folly in some, and in time great security will fall upon all.
- 1Doct.
Some there are who think the days we live in now, are not only the days of the Son of man, but part of the days of the coming of the Son of man, wherein the Churches (especially in these places) grow to be Virgin-Professors: Our judgments hold it, our practise maintains it, all Church-members are and must be visible Saints, visible Believers, Virgins espoused to Christ, escaping the pollutions of Idolatry and the world: Take heed the Lord find not many of you foolish, take heed you that are not so, that in time you grow not secure; you have the pillow of peace to lie on, and the cares of the world to make you dream away your time, and you have no pinching persecutions to awaken you, and if no wrestlings within, look for security there. Folly will be the death and bane of some, hence boast not. Security, a sleeping sickness will be the disease of others, if the Lord prevent not: But I intend to anchor here, only to set up marks at these Flats, that you may avoid them and come not near them.