A59665:964
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.
3. By their temptations and trials, Deut. 8. 2. The Lord hath led thee forty years to prove thee and show thee what was in thy heart. Rom. 5. 4, 5. Tribulation breeds experience, and that hope or expectation of that which shall never make us ashamed. Isle name no more. But look as we said to them that cried out against Prayer without a Book, we answer, Hath a man dwelt in his own heart so many years, and not known his wants, to make him pray? nor the Lords work of mercy, to make him bless, so here.
3. By their temptations and trials, Deut. 8. 2. The Lord hath led thee forty years to prove thee and shew thee what was in thy heart. Rom. 5. 4, 5. Tribulation breeds experience, and that hope or expectation of that which shall never make us ashamed. Ile name no more. But look as we said to them that cried out against Prayer without a Book, we answer, Hath a man dwelt in his own heart so many years, and not known his wants, to make him pray? nor the Lords work of mercy, to make him blesse, so here.
2. But if a man looks to his work,1 this will interrupt and break his peace.
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