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The Strait Gate; The Heavenly Footman: the Barren Fig-Tree : the Pharisee and Publican : and Divine Emblems
The Strait Gate The Heavenly Footman the Barren FigTree the Pharisee and Publican and Divine Emblems Author:John Bunyan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: American Baptist Publication Society Subjects: Theology Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Theology Notes:... more » This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE STRAIT GATE. CHAPTER I. THE TEXT EXPLAINED. ENTER YE HT AT THE STRAIT GATE ; FOR WIDE IS THE GATE, AND BROAD U THE WAT, THAT LEADET13 TO DESTRUCTION, AND MANY THERE BE WHICH OO IN THEREAT : BECAUSE STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW IS THE WAT, WHICH LEADETH UNTO LIFE, AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT. -- MATT. vii. 13, 14. STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE: FOR MANT, I SAT UNTO TOU, WILL SEEK TO ENTER IN, AND SHALL NOT BE ABLE. -- LUKE xiii. 24. These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are therefore, in especial manner, to be heeded; besides, the subject matter of the words is the most weighty, to wit, how we should attain salvation, and therefore also to be heeded. The occasion of the words was a question which one that was at this time in the company of the disciples, put to Jesus Christ. The question was this, " Lord, are there few that be saved ?" Luke xiii. 23. A serious question, not such as tended to the subversion of the hearers, as the many now-a- days do; but such as in its own nature tended to the awakening of the company to good, and that called for such an answer as might profit the people also. This question also well pleased Jesus Christ, and he prepared and gave such an answer, as was without the least retort, or show of distaste; such an answer, I say, as carried in it the most full resolve to the question itself, ...« less