Obfervation I. The Parable of the Ten Jlirgins, man will be a fpot and pollution eo all r_he re~,JHde 12. [pots ;, y<Hr fu.fi · s; you know how many come over, how It begms to be pleaded for, What, not baptifed, and Profetfors ? and yet how many are disfigured ? therefore try them wtll ; rake heed of chinking Elders or Churches are roo lhitt. Fourthly be much in prayer for rhe Churches, I[a.6z.7. Givc the Lord no )·eft till he mak: [erufaltm the pra1fe of the whole et~rth, that's the way; do you fee any fins in the Counrr.y, go 'and fiand in rhegap wirh Mo[et, and thouoh rhe Lord offer to do good to you, yer turn him not off fo, rill be promife to :'eJieve his poor Churches al~o; beg and rhis.will do ir; be much in faRing; it is a lhame for us (who arelaymg the foundanons of many generations J nor to be much wirh Cod in prayer and fafiing; and that when ill other places there is fo much fowing of this feed. ~!t~~~~~ttt~~!!~~t~!~~~~~~~!t.!~~~~~~! T~'Pf¥:~~~tpf!n~:~~~1f!1:~fT~ff1 CHAP. X. Shewing that counterfeit Grace is not lafling. ~E. R SE 8,9. .Andthe foolifb [11id unto the wife, Give m ofyour OJl, for our lamps are goingt~ut. But the wife anfwered foying , Not fo, left there be not enongh for us ttnd you ~ but go you rather to them that feU, A-nd bu1 for your {elves. · N rhefe words is fer down the e£fet1: ~hich this awakening cry rook in rhe foolilh Virgins only: . Firll, Theycqme to feel, and foro complam of the want ofoyl. Secondly, They petition the wife, that they would give rhem of their oyl; which latter is amplified in verf.9. from rheaofwer rhe wife madeumo them. _~"'We !hall open the words as we come to obferve any rhiPgfromrbem; ~~begin now with ·the complaint [ Our lamp• arc go»c ou: J or g•mg out, tw 1s all one; The wife Viroins lamps did growdim ., bur yettheic oyl was !lot fpent ; but here their oyl was fpenr, and hence rherr Lamps were gomg out. · 'That counnrfeit and c9mmo11 grat of foolifh Virgins, after fome time of glorious profef!ion, will certAinly vo om, and be qJJite (pent: It confumes ID the uling, and lhining and burning. Luk,e S, I 8. To him rh at hath fhall be g•ven, b11t
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