A59665:945
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.
I shall speak to two sorts of people.
1. Those that content themselves with any thing that may stop and quiet Conscience, any slight work, any poor desires, any hedge-Faith, any moral performances, any groundless conjectures will serve their turn. And being full, they can hear all Sermons, no wind will shake them, no searching, threatening Truths concern them; they are so good, that they think the Lord means not them. Well, I say no more to you but this, know it that the time is coming that the Lord Jesus will try you, and examine you to the very Bran; and will descry all thy paint, and open all thy lusts and thoughts, and thy nakedness, and shame, and confusion shall be seen of all the world.
1. Those that content themselves with any thing that may stop and quiet Conscience, any slight work, any poor desires, any hedge-Faith, any moral performances, any groundlesse conjectures will serve their turn. And being full, they can hear all Sermons, no wind will shake them, no searching, threatning Truths concern them; they are so good, that they think the Lord means not them. Well, I say no more to you but this, know it that the time is coming that the Lord Jesus wil try you, and examine you to the very Bran; and will descry all thy paint, and open all thy lusts and thoughts, and thy nakednesse, and shame, and confusion shall be seen of all the world.
II. Those that content themselves with the revelation of the Lords love, without the sight of any work, or not looking to it. I desire the Lord to reveal himself abundantly more and more, to all that have the Lord savingly revealed unto them. For this is the misery, Christ is a hidden thing, and so is his love: Yet consider,