A59665:914
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
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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, Ephes. 2. 4, 5. According to his great love hath he quickened us together with him: there is a kind of Resurrection of a mans soul when 'tis brought home to Christ. And look as the bodies of the Saints shall be different at last day, so when God raiseth their souls from the Dead here, there is a difference now.
3. The Lord con•ines 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 exprest in peculiar operations upon the Soul, and in the Soul, which Gods truth in the New Covenant promiseth, and Gods faithfulnesse executeth, Ier. 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, Ephes. 2. 4, 5. According to his great love hath he quickened us together with him: there is a kind of Resurrection of a mans soul when 'tis brought home to Christ. And look as the bodies of the Saints shall be different at last day, so when God raiseth their souls from the Dead here, there is a difference now.