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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.
That when men have put in all the claim they can to the kingdom of heaven, but few will have it for their inheritance: The Observation standeth of two parts.
First, that the time is coming when every man will put in whatever claim ⟨p. 83⟩they can to the kingdom of Heaven.
First, that the time is coming when every man will put in whatever claim ⟨p. 83⟩they can to the kingdome of Heaven.
Secondly, there will be but few of them that put in claim thereto that shall enjoy it for their inheritance.
I shall speak but a word or two to the first part of the Observation, because I have prevented my enlargement thereon by my explication upon the words; but you find in the 25. of Matthew, that all they on the left hand of the Judge, did put in all the claim they could for this blessed kingdom of heaven: If you shall take them on the left hand, as most do, for all the sinners that shall be damned, then that completely proveth the first part of the Observation, for it is expressly said, then shall they, (all of them jointly, and every one apart) also answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee thus and thus, and did not minister unto thee,