Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

The Apostles propounded that Question unto our Saviour upon the Observation our Saviour had made (the rich Young man having departed from him) of the very great difficulty in the Salvation of a Rich man. 'Tis observable, that the Disciples do not say, What rich man can then be saved? ¹But being conscious that every Condition had its temptations, as a rich man had his, so they had theirs, they therefore propound the question more generally. To which, so far as my Subject leads me, I answer,

1. 1Mat. 19.25.

1. By Concession, that certainly there will be but few saved. Answ. Christ's Flock is a very little One, a little diminutive Flock.¹ Of the many that came out of Egypt how few entered Canaan! And if the Apostles were so solicitous, when it was told them, that one of them (tho but one of the twelve) was the Son of Perdition, how careful should we be, when our Saviour tells us, That straight is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. ²Who that ⟨image 57⟩thinks seriously on this, will not make the Apostles solicitous Question, Is it I?

1. By Concession, that certainly there will be but few saved. Answ. Christ's Flock is a very little One, a little diminutive Flock.¹ Of the many that came out of Egypt how few entred Canaan! And if the Apostles were so solicitous, when it was told them, that one of them (tho but one of the twelve) was the Son of Perdition, how carefull should we be, when our Saviour tells us, That straight is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.