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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.
And shall not be able.
The ability here intended, is not that which standeth in carnal power or fleshly subtlety, but in the truth and simplicity of those things, for the sake of which, God giveth the kingdom of heaven to his people.
The ability here intended, is not that which standeth in carnal power or fleshly subtilty, but in the truth and simplicity of those things, for the sake of which, God giveth the kingdom of heaven to his people.
There are five things, for the want of which, this people will not be able to enter.
First, this kingdom belongs to the elect, to those for whom it was prepared from the foundation of the world, Matt. 25. hence Christ saith, when he comes, he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another, Matt. 24. and hence he saith again, I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah, an inheritor of my mountains, and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants