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The Parable of the Ten Virgins

Volume 2 of 3

by Thomas Shepard

Publication

Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria
Date published
1990
Print status
Out of stock

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Dust jacket
Yes
Total pages
635 pages
ISBN-13
9791877611161
ISBN-10
1877611166

Reference

Notes
Published posthumously in 1659 from Shepard's sermon notes on Matthew 25:1-13, distinguishing true assurance of salvation from antinomian counterfeits. Part 1 treats the visible church's preparation to meet Christ; Part 2, His coming to meet her. Volume 2 of the three-volume Works of Thomas Shepard (with The Sincere Convert and the Sound Believer and Theses Sabbaticae, both catalogued here).
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Contents

  • Part 1
    • 1. General Scope of the Parable
    • 2. The Visible Church
    • 3. The Coming of Christ and the Security of Professors
    • 4. The Soul that Will Enjoy Communion with Christ Must Be Divorced from All Other Lords, Particularly from Lusts and from the Law. The Manner of Its Espousals unto Christ
    • 5. The Marks and Signs whereby the Soul May Know Whether He Be in League or Love with Any Lust or Creature, or Married to the Law
    • 6. Motives and Arguments to Persuade Us into the Love of Christ, and to Be Espoused to Him
    • 7. All Power for Spiritual Work from Christ
    • 8. Christian's Duty of Being Constantly Ready to Meet Christ, and to Enjoy Communion with Him
    • 9. A Fourfold Exhortation to Believers
    • 10. The Soul's Immediate Closing with the Person of Christ, as the Proper Object of Saving Faith
    • 11. True Believers Do with Hope Expect the Second Coming of Christ
    • 12. Believers Do Long and Desire for the Appearance and Second Coming of Christ
    • 13. There Are Hypocrites in the Best and Purest Churches
    • 14. A Discovery of Gospel Hypocrites
    • 15. There Is a Vast Difference between a Sincere Christian and the Closest Hypocrite
    • 16. The Hypocrisy of the Heart Proceeds from a Want of Saving Illumination in the Understanding
    • 17. Hypocrites Discover Themselves in an Ineffectual Use of the Means of Grace
    • 18. The Hearts and Souls of Believers Are Made as Vessels Only for the Reception of Christ, His Spirit, and the Graces Thereof
    • 19. The Holy Spirit Is in Believers as the Principle of Their Spiritual Life and Holiness
    • 20. There Is Such a Fullness or Measure of Grace in the Heart of Believers, which the Most Refined Hypocrites Never Arise Unto
    • 21. A More Extended Account of that Fullness of Grace that Is in Believers, and How the Most Glorious Hypocrites Come Short of It
    • 22. True Saving Grace in the Hearts of Believers Can Never Fail
  • Part 2
    • 1. Carnal Security in Virgin Churches
    • 2. Carnal Security Comes by Degrees
    • 3. Security the Last Sin of Good and Bad
    • 4. Christ's Absence the Cause of Security in His Churches
    • 5. Christ's Awakening Cry before His Coming
    • 6. The Certainty of Christ's Coming
    • 7. God's Compassion towards Wise and Foolish Virgins
    • 8. Christ's Coming and His Awaking Sleeping Christians
    • 9. Christians Trimming Their Lamps, and Holiness the Christian's Glory
    • 10. Counterfeit Grace Is Not Lasting
    • 11. Unregenerate Persons May Have a Sense of Their Want of Grace
    • 12. The Desire of Grace that May Be in Hypocrites
    • 13. The Desires and Endeavors of Hypocrites after Grace Are Not Lasting
    • 14. The Grace of One Person Will Not Advantage Another that Wants Grace Himself, and the Best Christians Cannot Dispense Grace to Those that Want It
    • 15. The Plentiful Dispensing of Grace in the Gospel Ministry
    • 16. Concerning Christ's Coming
    • 17. Christ's Coming as a Bridegroom to His Own
    • 18. Christ Will Not Tarry when Once His Time Is Come, and the Folly of Such Whose Work Is Then to Do; and the Blessedness of Saints Consists in Immediate Communion with Christ
    • 19. None Shall Enjoy Christ Hereafter, but Those that Are Prepared Here