A59665:96
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.
SECT. II.
Whoever look for everlasting Communion with the Bridegroom of the Church,1 Jesus Christ, must be Virgins Divorced from all others▪ and Espoused only to Jesus Christ.
WHoever look for everlasting Communion with the Bridegroom of the Church,1 Iesus Christ, must be Virgins Divorced from all others▪ and Espoused only to Iesus Christ.
- 1Obs. 1.
Here were indeed foolish ones among these, yet as foolish and blind as they were, they saw that this was the way, to be like the wise, to be Virgins as well as they, Psal. 45. 10, 11. Jer. 3. 19, 20. as a Wife departs, so ye; but how shall I put thee among the Children, &c. you shall call me my Father, i. e. one instead of all other things, and shall not turn aside from me, Hos. 2. 23. there is their communion; Hence the Lord will, 1. take away the names of Baaim; 2. Betroth them to himself.