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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.
To prove that they will seek, although I have done it already, yet ⟨p. 64⟩read these texts at your leisure; Matt. 25. 11. chap. 7. 22. Luk. 13. 28▪
To prove that they will seek, although I have done it already, yet ⟨p. 64⟩reade these texts at your leisure; Matt. 25. 11. chap. 7. 22. Luk. 13. 28▪
And in a word to give you the reason why they will seek to enter in.
1. Now they will see what a kingdom it is, what glory there is in it, and now they shall also see the blessedness which they shall have that shall then be counted worthy to enter in: the reason why this kingdom is so little regarded, it is because it is not seen, the glory of it is hid from the eyes of the world: their eye hath not seen, nor their ear heard, &c. I, but then they shall hear and see too, and when this comes to pass, then even then he that now most seldom thinks thereof, will seek to enter in.
1. Now they will see what a kingdom it is, what glory there is in it, and now they shall also see the blessednesse which they shall have that shall then be counted worthy to enter in: the reason why this kingdom is so little regarded, it is because it is not seen, the glory of it is hid from the eyes of the world: their eye hath not seen, nor their ear heard, &c. I, but then they shall hear and see too, and when this comes to passe, then even then he that now most seldom thinks thereof, will seek to enter in.