The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

1. When you stand before Christs judgment-seat to receive pardon,¹ you are here to look upon all as unclean, and your selves ungodly.

1. 1Answ.

2. When you come to look upon your Sanctification, you are to see it as 'tis, mixed with sin and corruption, and so cause of being abased as low as Hell for what is done; yet that cleanness and truth there is, you must see too, Rom. 7. He felt a Law warring against the Law of his mind, yet he felt another Law too which he made an evidence of his being in Christ, Rom. 8. 1. Giving all the Glory of it to Christ. Not I but Christ. And yet Paul was no Goat, Its one thing to see Grace in my self, another thing to look upon it as mine, to clear me withal. You are to see the Lords work and not appropriate it to your self. And this let me say, if there be no more than ungodliness in thee, and thou seest no more, thou shalt never see God in Heaven, Heb. 12. 14. Nor didst never see him yet, 1 John 3. 6, 8. Oh therefore look to a work!

2. When you come to look upon your Sanctification, you are to see it as 'tis, mixt with sin and corruption, and so cause of being abased as low as Hell for what is done; yet that cleannesse and truth there is, you must see too, Rom. 7. He felt a Law warring against the Law of his mind, yet he felt another Law too which he made an evidence of his being in Christ,