A25478:326
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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10. Lastly, this Case, as before stated, is a good Key to open some dark and hard sayings in Scripture: As that, Mat. 19.24. It is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. Which is a proverbial speech, denoting how difficult a thing it is for any rich man, but how impossible it is for him that has a predominant love to his riches, and so confidence in them, to enter into the Kingdom of God, as Mark 10.24.
10. Lastly, this Case, as before stated, is a good Key to open some dark and hard sayings in Scripture: As that, Mat. 19.24. It is easier for a camel to go thorow an eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. Which is a proverbial speech, denoting how difficult a thing it is for any rich man, but how impossible it is for him that has a predominant love to his riches, and so confidence in them, to enter into the Kingdom of God, as Mark 10.24.