A59665:921
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.
TO the Papists,1 who in their writings seek to shame the Churches of Christ, saying that they deny all Inherent Righteousness or Graces, 2making a man just by the righteousness of Christ, and in the mean while to remain like a Carcass or Ghost, or a painted Sepulchre full of rottenness within. Three or four of these Archers that have shot these arrows I have met with, whereby they wound the heart of Profession, and keep the people in professed enmity and opposition against the ways of Gods Grace: Now we do not only deny this, but we profess that the Lord doth not only out of the riches of his Grace accept us in Christ, but out of the same love sends down the Spirit of Grace, not only to make us civil and moral, or hypocritical, but that the Lord works thereby such a change as is not to be found in the most refined Hypocrites breathing. And we profess though our Justification doth not consist in this, yet who-ever hath not this is not justified (what-ever he may imagine) in the sight of God. And the Lord grant the Churches of the Lord Jesus may never open the mouths of those Blasphemers of his Name, in denying all righteousness in our selves at all; Deny it to justify, deny it not altogether.
TO the Papists,1 who in their writings seek to shame the Churches of Christ, saying that they deny all Inherent Righteousnesse or Graces, 2making a man just by the righteousnesse of Christ, and in the mean while to remain like a Carkase or Ghost, or a painted Sepulchre full of rottennesse within. Three or four of these Archers that have shot these arrows I have met with, whereby they wound the heart of Profession, and keep the people in professed enmity and opposition against the waies of Gods Grace: Now we do not only deny this, but we professe that the Lord doth not only out of the riches of his Grace accept us in Christ, but out of the same love sends down the Spirit of Grace, not only to make us civil and moral, or hypocritical, but that the Lord works thereby such a change as is not to be found in the most refined Hypocrites breathing. And we professe though our Justification doth not consist in this, yet who-ever hath not this is not justified (what-ever he may imagine) in the sight of God. And the Lord grant the Churches of the Lord Jesus may never open the mouths of those Blasphemers of his Name, in denying all righteousnesse in our selves at all; Deny it to justifie, deny it not altogether.