An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

¹That's a broad place indeed. No straightness implieth greatest enlargement, or enlargement to the uttermost, not only of need, but desire. A broad place, where there is no straightness, is full liberty, or fill of liberty. A man may be in a very good, in a very free condition, and yet have some straits. To be in so good a condition, as to have no straits at all, is the top and perfection of freedom. And surely, The full attainment of such an enlargedness, is the reward of the next life, not the enjoyment of this life. The way of the wicked,² in this life, is most strictly broad; the way of the righteous, in this life, is broadly strait, and endeth in a broadness of everlasting blessedness. God at last will remove all his out of a strait, into a broad place, where there is no straightness. Hence,

¹That's a broad place indeed. No streightness implyeth greatest enlargement, or enlargment to the uttermost, not only of need, but desire. A broad place, where there is no streightness, is full lib•rty, or fill of liberty. A man may be in a very good, in a very free condition, and yet have some streights. To be in so good a condition, as to have no streights at all, is the top and perfection of freedom. And surely, The full attainment of such an enlargedness, is the reward of the next life, not the enjoyment of this life. The way of the wicked,² in this life, is most streightly broad; the way of the righteous, in this life, is broadly streight, and endeth in a broadness of everlasting blessedness. God at last will remove all his out of a streight, into a broad place, where there is no streightness. Hence,

1. 1Sp•tium latum est, •mo la•issimum, ubi n•lla angustia est.
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