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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.
Eighthly, The parable of the unprofitable servant, the parable of the man without a wedding garment, and the parable of the unsavoury salt, do each of them ju[…]je this for truth Matt. 25. 24, 25 chap. 22. 11, 12, 13. chap. 5. 13. that of the unprofitable servant, is to show us, the •••th and idleness of some professors; that of the man without ⟨p. 106⟩a wedding-garment, is to show us, how some professors have the shame of their wickedness seen by God, even when they are among the children of the bridegroom; and that parable of the unsavoury salt, is to show, that as the salt that hath lost its savour is fit for nothing, no, not for the dunghill, but to be trodden under the foot of men; So some professors (yea and great ones too, for this parable reached one of the Apostles:) will in Gods day be counted fit for nothing but to be trodden down as the mire in the streets: oh the slothful, the naked and unsavoury professors, how will they be rejected of God and his Christ, in the judgment; look to it professors.
Eighthly, The parable of the unprofitable servant, the parable of the man without a wedding garment, and the parable of the unsavory salt, do each of them ju〈…〉ie this for truth Matt. 25. 24, 25 chap. 22. 11, 12, 13. chap. 5. 13. that of the unprofitable servavt, is to shew us, the •••th and idleness of some professors; that of the man without ⟨p. 106⟩a wedding-garment, is to shew us, how some professors have the shame of their wickedness seen by God, even when they are among the children of the bridgroome; and that parable of the unsavory salt, is to shew, that as the salt that hath lost its savor is fit for nothing, no, not for the dunghill, but to be troden under the foot of men; So some professors (yea and great ones too, for this parable reached one of the Apostles:) will in Gods day be counted fit for nothing but to be troden down as the mire in the streets: oh the slothful, the naked and unsavory professors, how will they be rejected of God and his Christ, in the judgment; look to it professors.