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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.
6. Sometimes this word many includeth all the world, good and bad. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting sha•• and contempt: Dan. 12. 2. compared with Joh. 5. 28. 29.
7. La••ly, Sometimes this word many intendeth the good only, even them that shall be saved, Luk. 1. 10. chap. 2. 34.
Since then that the word is so variously applied, let us enquire how it must be taken in the text, and.
1. It must not be applied to the sincerely godly, for they shall never perish, Joh. 10. 27. 28.