A30209:145
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.
For many [I say unto you].
These latter words carry in them a double argument to prove the truth asserted before. First, in that he directly pointeth at his followers. I say unto [you]: many I say unto you, even to you that are my disciples, to you that have eat and drunk in my presence. I know that sometimes Christ hath directed his speech to his disciples, not so much upon there accounts, as upon the accounts of others: but here it is not so: the I ⟨p. 54⟩say unto you, in this place, it immediately concerned some of themselves. I say unto you, ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock saying, Lord, Lord open to us, and he shall answer, and say unto you, I know you not, whence you are; then shall ye begin to say, we have eat, and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets: But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are, depart from me, •all••• workers of iniquity, 'tis you, you, you, that I mean.
These latter words carry in them a double argument to prove the truth asserted before. First, in that he directly pointeth at his followers. I say unto [you]: many I say unto you, even to you that are my disciples, to you that have eat and drunk in my presence. I know that sometimes Christ hath directed his speech to his disciples, not so much upon there accounts, as upon the accounts of others: but here it is not so: the I ⟨p. 54⟩say unto you, in this place, it immediatly concerned some of themselves. I say unto you, ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock saying, Lord, Lord open to us, and he shall answer, and say unto you, I know you not, whence you are; then shall ye begin to say, we have eat, and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets: But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are, depart from me, •all••• workers of iniquity, 'tis you, you, you, that I mean.