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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.
First, In the general, they rest in things below special grace, as in awakenings that are not special, in repentance that is not special, in faith that is not special, &c. and a little to run the parallel betwixt the one and the other, that if God will, you may see and escape.
1. Have they that shall be saved awakenings about their ••are by nature, so have they that shall be damned: they that never go to heaven may see much of sin and of the wrath of God due thereto: this had Cain, and Judas, and yet they came short of the kingdom. Gen. 4. Matt. 27. 4. The saved have convictions in order ⟨p. 116⟩to their eternal life, but the others convictions are not so: the convictions of the one doth drive them sincerely to Christ, the convictions of the other doth drive them to the law, and the law to desperation at last.
1. Have they that shall be saved awakenings about their ••are by nature, so have they that shall be damned: they that never go to heaven may see much of sin and of the wrath of God due thereto: this had Cain, and Judas, and yet they came short of the kingdom. Gen. 4. Matt. 27. 4. The saved have convictions in order ⟨p. 116⟩to their eternal life, but the others convictions are not so: the convictions of the one doth drive them sincerly to Christ, the convictions of the other doth drive them to the law, and the law to desperation at last.