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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.
5. Do not judge of the Lords love and heart toward you in these sad times by present feelings, but by the issue of them. For such is the Lords carriage towards his people sometimes, that God seems wholly to cross them, and appears in all their ways with a drawn sword against them. He doth not only leave them to their enemies, as he did Samson, but to their sins, and to Satan to buffet them, that there is nothing but clouds of wrath and no Star appearing. Now look to the issue, and mark the upright man, his end is peace; and consider this, Christs Kingdom is hid, and he brings contraries out of contraries, he makes darkness light, Hell Heaven, guilt pardon, weakness strength, and calls things that are not, as though they were. Then think within thy self, Isle conclude nothing against my self, but stay and wait what the issue will be, which is ever glorious, James 1. 2, 3, 4. 1 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7. Consider hath not the Lord done thee much good already? Oh consider what is then behind!
5. Do not judge of the Lords love and heart toward you in these sad times by present feelings, but by the issue of them. For such is the Lords cariage towards his people somtimes, that God seems wholly to crosse them, and appears in all their waies with a drawn sword against them. He doth not only leave them to their enemies, as he did Samson, but to their sins, and to Satan to buffet them, that there is nothing but clouds of wrath and no Star appearing. Now look to the issue, and mark the upright man, his end is peace; and consider this, Christs Kingdom is hid, and he brings contraries out of contraries, he makes darknesse light, Hell Heaven, guilt pardon, weaknesse strength, and calls things that are not, as though they were. Then think within thy self, Ile conclude nothing against my self, but stay and wait what the issue will be, which is ever glorious, Iames 1. 2, 3, 4. 1 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7. Consider hath not the Lord done thee much good already? Oh consider what is then behind!