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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.
1. Create in his people glorious apprehensions of his blessed face appearing in the glass of the Gospel, Rev. 22. 4.
1. Create in his people glorious apprehensions of his blessed face appearing in the glasse of the Gospel, Rev. 22. 4.
2. The Lord makes many Promises of love unto his people, which go to the very heart to cheer them, Hos. 2. 14.
2. The Lord makes many Promises of love unto his people, which go to the very heart to chear them, Hos. 2. 14.
3. The Lord confines not his love to looks and words, though it's wonderful to have the least of them, but you may read his love in his works of love. Now those works peculiar to them, are first and chiefly the donation of Christ, for a man in redemption, to a man in vocation: and then the peculiar fruits of this love expressed in peculiar operations upon the Soul, and in the Soul, which Gods truth in the New Covenant promiseth, and Gods faithfulness executeth, Jer. 31. 33. & 32. 40. to take away the stony heart, to write Laws in the heart, to put fear into the heart; these are the peculiar effects of this New Covenant, and they are operations in a man, which only the Elect feel and wonder at Grace for,