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The strait gate, or, Great difficulty of going to Heaven plainly proving
The strait gate, or, Great difficulty of going to Heaven plainly proving by the Scriptures that not only the rude and profane, but many great professors will come short of that Kingdom / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But what do you mean by these three questions?
Answ. I mean graces show themselves at these their seasons whether they be rotten or sound.
Answ. I mean graces shew themselves at these their seasons whether they be rotten or sound.
How do they show themselves to be true under the first of these?
How do they shew themselves to be true under the first of these?
Ans. By mistrusting our own sufficiency, by crying to God for help, by desiring rather to die then to bring any dishonour to the name of God, and by counting, that if God be honoured in the trial, thou hast gained more then all the world could give ⟨p. 43⟩thee, 2 Chro. 20. 12. chap. 14. 11.