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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.
5. Fall tells the Galatians, false brethren crept in unawares, and so does the Apostle Jude, and yet they were as quick-sighted to see as any now adays, Gala. 2. Jude. 3. 4.
5. Faul tells the Galatians, false brethren crept in unawares, and so does the Apostle Jude, and yet they were as quick-sighted to see as any now adays, Gala. 2. Jude. 3. 4.
6. The Church in Sardis had but a few names in her to whom the kingdom of heaven belonged, Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy,
7. As for the Church of the Laodiceans, it is called a wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Rev. 3. So that put all things together, and I may boldly say as I also have said already, That among the multitude of them that shall be damned, professors will make a considerable party; or to speak in the words of the observation, when men have put ⟨p. 112⟩in all the claim they can for heaven, but few will have it for their inheritance.