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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.
Tenthly, John, who was after Christ, saith, that the whole world lies in wickedness, that all the world wondered after the beast, and that power was given to the beast, over all kindreds, tongues and nations; power to do what? why to cause all, both great and small, rich and poor, bond and free, to receive his mark, and to be branded for him: Joh. 5. 19. Revel. 13. 3, 8, 16.
Tenthly, John, who was after Christ, saith, that the whole world lies in wickedness, that all the world wondred after the beast, and that power was given to the beast, over all kindreds, tongues and nations; power to do what? why to cause all, both great and small, rich and poor, bond and free, to receive his mark, and to be branded for him: Joh. 5. 19. Revel. 13. 3, 8, 16.
Eleventhly, should we come to observation and experience, the show of the countenance, of the bulk of men, doth witness against them, they declare their sin like Sodom, they hide it not, Isa. 3. 9. where is the man that maketh the almighty God his delight, and that designeth his glory in the world; do not even almost all, pursue this world, their lusts and pleasures? and so, consequently, say unto God, depart from us, for we desire, not the knowledge of thy ways, or what's the Almighty that we should serve him? it's in vain to serve God, &c.
Eleventhly, should we come to observation and experience, the shew of the countenance, of the bulk of men, doth witness against them, they deciare their sin like Sodom, they hide it not, Isa. 3. 9. where is the man that maketh the almighty God his delight, and that designeth his glory in the world; do not even almost all, pursue this world, their lusts and pleasures? and so, consequently, say unto God, depart from us, for we desire, not the knowledg of thy ways, or what's the Almighty that we should serve him? it's in vain to serve God, &c.