The Parable of the Ten Virgins, Table of contents – Collection of sermons
THE Parable of the Ten Virgins, In its Peculiar Relation to the Coming, and Glorious KINGDOM OF OUR Lord Ieſus Chriſt.
OPENED, According to the Analogy of the whole Parable, and of Scripture in General, and Practically Applied, for Exerciſing all the Churches to Holy Watchfulneſs, Mark iv. 13.
WITH AN APOLOGY for the Hope of the Kingdom of Chriſt, Appearing within this Approaching Year, 1697.
Wherein ſome of the Principal Arguments for ſuch an Expectation, are briefly Couch'd, and the Greater Objections Anſwered. Preſented to the Notice and Examination of the Arch-Biſhops and Biſhops Now in PARLIAMENT Aſſembled.
By T. BEVERLEY.
Ezek. 10. 13. As concerning the Wheels, It was cryed to them, in my Hearing, Oh! Revolution!
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A TABLE of the Principal Doctrines of each SERMON.
The Sermons are Divided into Five, and Six; Each Part, viz. The firſt Five begin with Page 1. and ſo go on. And the Six Laſt alſo with Page 1. and ſo go on.
The Doctrine of the First Sermon, Page 1.
THE Kingdom of Chriſt is in every Thing, and throughout; The Kingdom of Heaven.
SERMON II. Page 21.
There is a Marriage-Union betwixt Chriſt and his Church, and every Particular▪ Believing Soul.
SERMON III. Page 39.
The Preparation for the Glorious Marriage-Solemnity is Now, and All Chriſtianity looks to that Solemnity.
SERMON IV. Page 59.
All thoſe that are Chriſts, are to hold the great Feaſt of the Supper of the Lamb, to Jehovah.
SERMON V. Page 74.
That the Coming of Jeſus Chriſt hath not yet been, ſince He was here on Earth, neither yet is it immediately to be. The Bridegroom Tarried.
The Second Part.
SERMON VI. Page 1.
While the Bridegroom tarried, All theſe Virgins, both the Wiſe, and the Ʋnwiſe, Slumber and Sleep.
SERMON VII. Page 18.
In the very ſame Circumſtances, wherein any of us lye down in the Grave, in the very ſame we muſt be awaken'd, and Riſe up again.
SERMON VIII. Page 38.
It is a Point of great Conſideration, What the difference is, between the Wiſe, and the Fooliſh Virgins.
SERMON IX. Page 58.
It muſt be ſadly Acknowledged, and every one is to take it to himſelf, That a Virgin, if a Fooliſh Virgin, ſhall not be admitted, nor ſuffered to enter into the Glory of that Marriage-Feaſt, the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb.
SERMON X. Page 24.
Every one that hears the Word of the Goſpel, concerning the Coming and Kingdom of Chriſt, is bound to Watch, as if it might be the very next Day and Hour; yea, though he had lived in the Days of Chriſt, and had known certainly, that his Coming and Kingdom ſhould not have been in ſo many Ages, as have run out ſince.
SERMON XI. Page 87.
The Whole is drawn up into Practical Application and Inference.
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