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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.
I. The light of the Word, which is a Divine Revelation of or concerning God and man, and of man, not only as fallen in Adam (which discovers all his sins, their nature, their end, &c.) but as risen again and recovered in Christ, the birth, being, breeding of the new creature. It discovers all hypocrisy of the heart, so that they shall be forced to say the Lord hath found me out, and Saints shall say the Lord hath done me good. As if the question be, Whom doth the Lord Jesus love? You need not go to Heaven for it, the Word is nigh thee. Those that love Christ: Who are those? Those that keep his Commandments, &c. So that the Word is a light to discover Truth from falsehood, the work of Grace from the work of hypocrisy; and by this light Saints may and do know what the work is. And it argues dreadful unbelief and Hypocrisy not to do thus, John 3. 19, 20, 21. And this all the Saints are commanded to do, 2 Pet. 1. 19. We (sealed with the Spirit) have a sure word of prophecy, &c. Which is a light in a dark place; both to reveal Gods heart and our hearts unto us; hence it makes us wise to salvation.
I. The light of the Word, which is a Divine Revelation of or concerning God and man, and of man, not only as fallen in Adam (which discovers all his sins, their nature, their end, &c.) but as risen again and recovered in Christ, the birth, being, breeding of the new creature. It discovers all hypocrisie of the heart, so that they shall be forced to say the Lord hath found me out, and Saints shall say the Lord hath done me good. As if the question be, Whom doth the Lord Jesus love? You need not go to Heaven for it, the Word is nigh thee. Those that love Christ: Who are those? Those that keep his Commandements, &c. So that the Word is a light to discover Truth from falshood, the work of Grace from the work of hypocrisie; and by this light Saints may and do know what the work is. And it argues dreadful unbelief and Hypocrisie not to do thus, Iohn 3. 19, 20, 21. And this all the Saints are commanded to do, 2 Pet. 1. 19. We (sealed with the Spirit) have a sure word of prophesie, &c. Which is a light in a dark place; both to reveal Gods heart and our hearts unto us; hence it makes us wise to salvation.