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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.
There were therefore but eight persons that escaped the wrath of God, in the day that the flood came upon the earth, the rest were ungodly; there was also a world of them, and they are to this day in the prison of hell. Heb. 6. 11. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 20.
There were therefore but eight persons that escaped the wrath of God, in the day that the sloud came upon the earth, the rest were ungodly; there was also a world of them, and they are to this day in the prison of hell. Heb. 6. 11. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 20.
Nay I must correct my pen, there were but seven of the eight that were good, for Ham though he scaped the Judgment of the water, yet the curse of God overtook him to his damnation.
Secondly, when the world began again to be replenished, and people began to multiply therein: how few even in all ages do we read of, that were saved from the damnation of the world.
Secondly, when the world began again to be replenished, and people began to multiply therein: how few even in all ages do we reade of, that were saved from the damnation of the world.