John Trapp on Matthew 25:10

Verse 10. And they that were ready, went in, &c.] The bridegroom waits no mans leisure: Love is [illegible: 1 word] of delaies, leaps [illegible: 1 word]. 1. 17. over all impediments, those mountains of Bether or division, that it may have not a union only, but a unity with the beloved. And the door was shut] Opportunity is headlong, and once lost, irrecoverable. It behooves us therefore to be abrupt in the work of repentance, Dan. 4. 27. as a work of greatest haste: lest we cry out, as he once, All too late, all too late: or as a great Lady of this land did lately upon her death-bed, Time, time, a world of wealth for an inch of time. We want not time so much, as waste it. Remember that upon this moment depends eternity. God hath hang'd the heaviest weights upon the weakest wiers.