Solomon's temple spiritualized, or, Gospel-light fetched out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let…Solomon's temple spiritualiz'd, or, Gospel-light fetcht out of the temple at Jerusalem, to let…

Answer, The straightness, the narrowness, must not be understood of the Gate simply, but because of that cumber that some Men carry with them, that pretend to be going to Heaven. Six Cubits! What is sixteen Cubits to him who would enter in here with all the World on his back? The young Man in the Gospel, who made such a noise for Heaven, might have gone in easy enough; for in six Cubits breadth there is room, but poor Man, he was not for going in thither, unless he might carry in his Houses upon his shoulder too, and now the Gate was strait: Mark 10.17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

Answer, The straightness, the narrowness, must not be understood of the Gate simply, but because of that cumber that some Men carry with them, that pretend to be going to Heaven. Six Cubits! What is sixteen Cubits to him who would enter in here with all the World on his back? The young Man in the Gospel, who made such a noise for Heaven, might have gone in easie enough; for in six Cubits breadth there is room, but poor Man, he was not for going in thither, unless he might carry in his Houses upon his shoulder too, and now the Gate was strait: Mark 10.17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

Wherefore he that will enter in at the Gate of Heaven, of which this Gate into the Temple was a type, must go in by himself, and not with his bundles of trash on his back, and if he will go in thus, he need not fear, there is room. The righteous Nation that keepeth the truth, they shall enter in; Isa. 26.2.

2. They that enter in at the Gate of the inner Court must be clothed in fine Linen, how then shall they go into the